On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Stephen Studley wrote: > At 1:28 AM +0100 11/20/04, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > > Stephen Studley wrote: > > > > > At 4:30 PM -0500 11/18/04, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > perl -we 'my $str=`ssh -n [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls`;print "[$str]\n"' > > > good idea, however same results, at least from my Windows machine. > > > The command-line perl works fine from my OSX machine. > > > > $ perl -we 'my $str=`ssh -n [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls`;print "[$str]\n"' > > ssh: machine.domain: no address associated with name > > [] > > > > Actually this is working with cygwin perl as expected. > > and it works for me as well, within cygwin perl. Should I not expect the > same from the Windows perl interpreter? Apparently not...
Ah. This changes the whole ballgame. No wonder we couldn't reproduce this. > I have come up with a work around. The following gets me what I need. > system "$commands->[$i] 1> $stdout->[$p] 2> $stderr->[$p]"; That's probably the best you could hope for at this point. If you want to know why the original program didn't work as expected, you should really ask the distributor of your Windows perl version (ActiveState?) and not this list. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/