Re: executing filename with ~ in perl

Well, the script thinks you're doing a search pattern, AND you're not using
~ properly.  Try

x = "~/rambo/bin/script1";


Agustin Rivera
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Roy Peters" <epeters@tellabs.com>
To: <beginners@perl.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 11:00 AM
Subject: executing filename with ~ in perl


> I have the following
>
> $x = ~rambo/bin/script1; (where script1 is an executable shell script)
>
> $ret = `x`;
>
> The above will not work.
>
> However if I define
>
> $x = /home/apple/rambo/bin/script1; (ie I give a full pathname)
>
> $ret = `x`;
>
> This will work.
>
> How do I make the first example work? By the way, I am on an unix machine
>
>
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• executing filename with ~ in perl by Roy Peters
• Re: executing filename with ~ in perl by Agustin Rivera
• Re: executing filename with ~ in perl by Paul Johnson