PERL Beginners - Re: Edit Windows PATH

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Re: Edit Windows PATH

Chris Devers

2005-04-27, 3:56 pm

On Fri, 1 Jan 1988, amr wrote:

> Do we have Perl script that can edit & add to the Windows (XP, 2000) path.?

Is there a reason that a simple system() command won't work here?

my $status = system( "SET PATH=%PATH%;$new_path" );
die "Couldn't set %PATH%: $!" if $status;

Normally I'm opposed to using system commands when the task can be done
either all in Perl or with a platform- and problem- specific module, but
in this case, the cmd shell's SET command is easy to run directly, so
why not just solve the problem that way?

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Chris Devers

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