On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Ramneek Singh wrote:
>
> > Hi ,
> >
> > I just installed cygwin on windows 2000.
> > I need it to run a perl script which will execute a java command .
> > Example: in the script it says thefollowing:
> >
> > java -classpath $CLASSPATH myprogram argument1 arg2
> >
> >
> > The problem is that though echo $CLASSPATH shows the correct classpath
> > to the jar
> > Files , example C:\abc\def\myfile.jar , when the perl script is run it
> > complains:
> >
> > C:abcdefmyfile.jar not found
> >
> > Notice in above the \ was stripped.
> > My java program is compiled with the C:\abc\def\myfiile.jar style of
> > classpath.
> >
> > How can I get this to work ?
>
> You didn't say exactly how you're invoking the java process, so depending
> on what you do, there may be multiple solutions. If you use system(),
> either quote the '\'s by using more '\'s (see the perl manpage) or set
> CLASSPATH in the environment, or use a suitably modified version of the
> java wrapper script that I posted to this list earlier (see
> <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-01/msg00174.html>).
> Igor
...or use forward slashes ('/'), which Java should understand with no
problems.
Igor
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