Re: Advice/help with beginner script (file sorting, execute command line command)

[Sinistral]

As much as I love Perl, since you're on a Windows 7 box, I would highly recommend using Power Shell. All of the functionality you describe can be done with native methods in PowerShell, and arguably can be done faster than a Windows compiled Perl could. You've come to the right place if you really want to do it in Perl, but it might be worth considering

[Laurent_R]

Sorry, but you must be kidding. Sure you can do things in power shell, but Perl is so much better, more expressive, more powerful, faster and so on. I am using regularly Unix shell scripting to launch my Perl program because it is sometimes useful to use OS scripts to do a few things (such as defining environment variables), but I would never recommend using sh or csh or ksh to replace Perl.

[UserMane]

Thanks for the reply. Interesting you should say that, I was thinking the same thing. The program that I want to run is written in Java, accessed via the command line using a wrapper written in Perl. Using a PowerShell script to run a Perl wrapper for a program written in Java seems a bit convoluted and I thought I may as well try it in Perl, but I think you may be correct.