Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 11:03:30 +0200 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Reply-To: "Gerrit @ cygwin" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <155698278631.20021005110330@familiehaase.de> To: Smithesh Ramachandran CC: "'pdesjardins@oakgroup.com'" , "'maharig@idirect.net'" , "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: Re: executing perl from command line (cygwin) In-Reply-To: <4B8F50430DC6D611875E00508BE14DF2507D8D@pasmail.office.tmcs> References: <4B8F50430DC6D611875E00508BE14DF2507D8D@pasmail.office.tmcs> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hallo Smithesh, Am Samstag, 5. Oktober 2002 um 01:34 schriebst du: > Hi Peter, > Like Mark said cygwin perl is a much better option. I use it quite often. > I think you still can execute active perl or any windows executable on > Cygwin. > Make sure you are escaping '\' by '/' on the directory paths. For e.g., if > you are trying to execute something on your windows at > C:\Sample\pscp.exe. > Then you will do the following on your cygwin prompt > admin@TMLA_SRAMACHAND ~ C:/\Sample/\pscp.exe The problem with ActiveStates Perl is that it knows nothing about Cygwin paths. If you want to read a file '/usr/test/text.txt' with ActiveState Perl you need to translate the paths to Windows syntax (-> 'C:\cygwin\usr\test\text.txt'). There are tools included with Cygwin to help with this (cygpath.exe), but it is a pita. Cygwin Perl is linked against cygwin1.dll and all this translation is done automatically for you. Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/