Re^4: Windows start /min

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Calling "start dir" from Perl does not work:

    c:\>perl -e "system(\"start dir\")"
    start: dir: Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden.
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dir is not a exe, it is a shell built in. start is also a shell built in. You will not find a start.exe in your C:\WINDOWS or any subfolder under that. Only cmd understands what dir is.

try

perl -e "system('cmd /c dir');"
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perl -e "system('cmd /c start dir');"
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Re^5: Windows start /min by Anonymous Monk on Oct 11, 2012 at 02:36 UTC
FWIW, `perl -le "system \"dir\""` works just fine, but then I don't have any autoloaded modules, no sitecustomize, no PERL env vars to override any defaults	[reply] [d/l]

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