Execute wmic command in cmd

[mvip]

Hi all, im new in perl :P so i would like to ask a stupid question ( no its not stupid if you are noob :D ) so here it is ... i would like to execute two commands ( about the health of hard drive ) the first command is "wmic" and that command is opening new line ( or something like telnet try it ) after that i have to execute the "diskdrive get status" so i can get the results and i like to write that result in variable so for now i have this code but i get error on the second system command it cant be execute. Any help or solution ....

use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;


system ('wmic');
system ('diskdrive get status');

[BrowserUk]

If you only want one piece of information, do it all as a single command:

@output = `wmic diskdrive get status`;;
print "@output";;
Status
 OK

[mvip]

Tnx for the reply. I dont think we understand....maybe i confuse u with that telling you "is like telent". So i will try explain again. The first command when i execute is like this:

C:\Users\mypc\Desktop\Perl>wmic
wmic:root\cli>

so as you can see wmic command is execute and i got the "wmic:root\cli>" prompt and here i have to execute the "diskdrive get status" command that will show me if the disk is ok or not. Here is how it looks like all the procedure ....

C:\Users\mypc\Desktop\Perl>wmic
wmic:root\cli>diskdrive get status
Status
OK

wmic:root\cli>

[BrowserUk]

as you can see wmic command is execute and i got the "wmic:root\cli>" prompt and here i have to execute the "diskdrive get status" command that will show me if the disk is ok or not.

You can do it that way. (Ie. interactive mode.)

But, you can also do it all in one go: wmic diskdrive get status as I showed above. (Try it it on your command line. )

And the second way is the easiest way to do it from a program. (Again; try the code I posted for yourself.)

It is not just the easiest way. Trying to use the interactive mode from within a Perl program is (almost) impossible.

[roboticus]

mvib:

As you can see below, you can either use wmic interactively ("like telnet") or as a simple command-line driven program.

H:\>wmic
wmic:root\cli>diskdrive get status
Status
OK

wmic:root\cli>quit

H:\>wmic diskdrive get status
Status
OK


H:\>

...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

[ww]

You may be able to solve this by inserting a sleep nn; where nn is an appropriate time for wmic to finish. Since you didn't tell us the exact error it's hard to tell, but the second system may well be waiting (and thus, " cant be execute" until the first is complete.