Re^2: perl robocopy to temp mapped drive.

[3dbc]

I attempted to run net use * and pull the output but am getting errors.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use warnings;

my $destination = qq(\\\\BLAH\\NESTED\\OBFUSCATED\.WITH SPECIAL_CHARS\
+\SHARE\\NAME\\DOWN\\DEEP);

netUse ($destination);
sub netUse {
    
    
    my @net_use_output;
    
    chomp $_[0];
    $_ = $1 if($_[0]=~/(.*)\\$/);
    print "\nnet use \* \"$_[0]\"";
    
    open TASK, "net use \* \"$_[0]\"" or die "cannot map $_[0]";

    while (<TASK>)
    {
        print;
        #chomp;
        #chop;
        #push (@net_use_output, $_);
        #return $_;
    }
    #print join(", ", @net_use_output);
    #return @net_use_output;
}

above code always produces error:

cannot map \\BLAH\NESTED\OBFUSCATED.WITH SPECIAL_CHARS\SHARE\NAME\DOWN
+\DEEP at ..\
examples\blah.pl line 12, <TASK> line 1.
net use * "\\BLAH\NESTED\OBFUSCATED.WITH SPECIAL_CHARS\SHARE\NAME\DOWN
+\DEEP"

Even though copying and pasting the same command on the cmd shell works perfectly?

[poj]

Try adding pipe to open

    open TASK, '-|',"net use \* \"$_[0]\"" or die "cannot map $_[0]";

or alternatively

#!perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use IPC::System::Simple qw/capture/;

my $destination = "\\\\BLAH\\NESTED\\OBFUSCATED\.WITH SPECIAL_CHARS\\S
+HARE\\NAME\\DOWN\\DEEP";
print netUse($destination);

sub netUse {
  my $path = shift; 
  my $cmd = "net use * $path";
  my ($msg) = grep /Drive/, capture($cmd);
  return ($msg =~ /Drive (.*) is now connected/);
}

poj

[3dbc]

I needed to add the 2>&1| guess that's the pipe you're talking about. Thanks.

sub netUse {
    
    
    my @net_use_output;
    my $output;
    
    chomp $_[0];
    $_ = $1 if($_[0]=~/(.*)\\$/);
    print "\nnet use \* \"$_[0]\"";
    
    #my $output = `net use \* \"$_[0]\"  2>&1|`;
    
    open TASK, "net use \* \"$_[0]\"  2>&1|" or die "cannot map $_[0]"
+;

    while (<TASK>)
    {
        print "\n";
        print;
        #chomp;
        #chop;
        push (@net_use_output, $_);
        #return $_;
    }
    print join(", ", @net_use_output);
    
    print "\n";
    print "\n";
    print "-----\n";
    print @net_use_output[0];
    $output = $2 if(@net_use_output[0]=~/^(Drive\s)([A-Z])\:(.*)$/);
    
    print "\n";
    print "\n";
    print "-----\n";
    print $output;
    #return @net_use_output;
}

Returns:

net use * "\\BLAH\NESTED\OBFUSCATED.WITH SPECIAL_CHARS\SHARE\NAME\DOWN
+\DEEP"
Drive S: is now connected to \\BLAH\NESTED\OBFUSCATED.WITH SPECIAL_CHA
+RS\SHARE\NAME\DOWN\DEEP.



The command completed successfully.


Drive S: is now connected to \\BLAH\NESTED\OBFUSCATED.WITH SPECIAL_CHA
+RS\SHARE\NAME\DOWN\DEEP.
,
, The command completed successfully.
,


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Drive S: is now connected to \\BLAH\NESTED\OBFUSCATED.WITH SPECIAL_CHA
+RS\SHARE\NAME\DOWN\DEEP.


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