Error while running PERL in windows

[mpatel1516]

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[NetWallah]

It appears that you are trying to run the command 'bpimagelist -A -media -hoursago', and parse the output.

You need to first "quote" the string, and then understand how perl handles the "\" (backslash) character, which has a special meaning inside a double-quoted string.

It is very difficult to determine what you are attempting, because you have not used <code> tags., but here is a guess at at one way to achieve what your first command is trying:

my @MEDIA;
chdir 'C:\Program Files\Veritas\Netbackup\bin\admincmd\';

for ( qx{bpimagelist -A -media -hoursago 24} ){
    s/\|/ /;
    my ($Image) = split;
}

[Corion]

Backslash found where operator expected at Test.pl line 2, near "Verit
+as\"

So, what have you done to remedy that error in line 2?

Perl is not Powershell and not cmd.exe. The for command has a different syntax in Perl. See perlsyn.

You will have to use Perl syntax to write Perl code, this also goes for file paths.

If you want to read output from a subprocess, you can use backticks (see perlop and readline):

my $command = "C:\\Program Files\\Veritas\\Netbackup\\bin\\admincmd>bp
+imagelist -A -media -hoursago 24>";
for my $line (`$command`) {
    ...
};

[BrowserUk]

Or just:

for my $line ( `C:/Program Files/Veritas/Netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpimag
+elist -A -media -hoursago 24` ) {
     ...
};

Which is simpler, and works. Note also:

1. The change from '>' to '/' between the last element of the path and the command name.
2. the absence of the '>' at the end of the command.

Both of which are left-overs from his attempt to convert his original qx<> delimited unix command lines to windows equivalents.

[Laurent_R]

Hi mpatel1516,

You've been told several times in your earlier thread (Run Perl script in windows) to use <code> and </code> tags for code and data, and <p> and </p> tags for plain paragraphs, in order to make your posts readable, but have so far kept not doing it in your new posts of that same other thread.

This new thread here is again not doing it. Many monks here will simply not take the pain to try to read your posts if you keep refusing to format them correctly. Please, help us to help you, make your posts legible.

[james28909]

Please use code tags <code> </code> around your code.