Re^2: Handling MSWin Script Output

[kcott]

G'day Orangutan,

Yes, I found out about the './ and '.\ early on when I tried just 'test_platform.pl'. There was a lot of output, which I won't post here; however, the last part of that had 'Suggestion [3,General]: The command test_platform.pl was not found, but does exist in the current location. Windows PowerShell does not load commands from the current location by default. If you trust this command, instead type: ".\test_platform.pl". ...'.

This is pretty much the same as UNIX-like systems when '.' is not in the path. Using my Cygwin:

$ test_platform.pl
-bash: test_platform.pl: command not found
$ ./test_platform.pl
Platform: cygwin
Executable: /home/ken/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.30.0/bin/perl

So, from PowerShell

perl test_platform.pl
perl ./test_platform.pl
perl .\test_platform.pl

all work identically to how I described 'perl ./test_platform.pl' in the OP. And

./test_platform.pl
.\test_platform.pl

both work identically to how I described './test_platform.pl' in the OP.

Anyway, what you've described regarding how the Perl interpreter is called, does make sense, and probably answers Question 2. It's a pity, because I'd prefer not to have to type 'perl' before every script name; still, it is only for a work project and won't generally affect me as I'm normally using Cygwin.

I also noticed that you'd signed up only a fortnight ago; so please accept a belated welcome to the Monastery.

[Orangutan]

Hello again, I think I learned something too, cmd indeed does run either call of the script in it's own window, only powershell opens the other window. And yeah if it's only for a minor convenience I suppose it might not be worth sinking too much time into :), but to throw some other suggestions out there, there does seem to be alot of possible ways to configure the powershell, or maybe wrap the script in a batch file or call from a batch file, and there also seems to be a 'legacy console' mode for powersell but I havent tried it.

Thanks for the welcome.