Re: Running perl from a test on Windows

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Buddy Burden <[email protected]> wrote:
> Gabor,
>
>> I am not sure if this helps but in Windows you need to put the
>> double-quotes around  $cmd
>>
>>     my $output = qx{$^X -e "$cmd"};
>
> Yes, that would work if I were running _only_ on Windows.  But I need
> it work for everything (and the double quotes on Linux will cause any
> variables in my perl code to get intepreted by the shell. :-/

Oh sure, I'd have a conditional based on     $^O eq 'MSWin32'
and two cases.

Gabor