Re^5: Running Multiple Commands using System

[Corion]

Maybe I did not make myself clear enough.

What I wanted to clarify is, whether the string you pass to system would work on its own when typed into a terminal.

So, again my question, maybe more explicit:

After opening a plain terminal, with your normal shell running, does pasting the following command work?

sdb -d root on 'sdb -d shell; ls';

If that doesn't work without Perl, it won't work with Perl added either.

If you want to run multiple commands within one shell session, I recommend creating a shell script and launching that script via system.

[dkhoriya]

Okay. Thanks for your elaborate explanation. But

system("sdb -d root on 'sdb -d shell; ls'");

the syntax used here is what I found to run multiple commands of shell by one system call. But only in this specific case it does not work.

 system("sdb -d root on 'sdb -d shell; cd /opt; ls';bash ");

gives error of "root does not take more than one arguement" while the following system call runs fine.

system("sdb -d shell 'cd /opt; ls';bash ");

executing all the 3 shell commands sequentially in one child terminal. and running independently

system("sdb -d root on");

also works fine.

[Corion]

So, your problem is with the sdb program. It says that "sdb root" does not take more than one argument. But you are giving it two arguments, on and 'sdb -d shell; cd /opt; ls'. I'm pretty confident that your command line as you show it to us does not work outside of Perl either.

This is not a Perl problem but a problem with the sdb program. I suggest you consult the documentation of the sdb program and/or ask the vendor of the program on how to proceed.