RE: Perl OS system equivalence or Perl scripts for UNIX-and-Windows
"Timothy Johnson" <[email protected]> Thu, 25 May 2006 17:33:38 -0700
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-----Original Message----- From: Ricky Zhou [mailto:[email protected]]=20 Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 5:30 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: Perl OS system equivalence or Perl scripts for UNIX-and-Windows > On 5/25/06, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > Lots of these scripts have system "<UNIX COMMAND>" on them which of > > course I > > can't run on Windows. Can anyone suggest how to get around this? Or any > white > papers on how to do this? > If you have sufficient access to the windows computers (and you want > absolutely minimal modification), you might want to consider > environments such as Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/). My thoughts exactly. Another alternative would be to check out the Perl Power Tools versions of the commands to come up with a cross-platform approximation. =20 http://ppt.perl.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>