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Better solution for calling 'net use' from Cygwin Perl?


Hello,

I had a .sh script that called Microsoft's "net use" command to mount drives under Win2k, and this worked:
net use 't:' '\\myserver\share'

However I needed to do this in Cygwin Perl so I could leverage an existing set of Perl libraries I have.

For the life of me I could correctly execute the "net use" command from Perl, because the characters would get escaped or not interpreted correctly.

The Perl workaround a coworker devised was:
    my $cmd = "net use 't:' '\\";
    $cmd .= "\\storigen1u21\\sfstest'";
   print $cmd;
    system $cmd;

and this DOES work. This would be the end of story, except we want to understand what caused the problem in the first place. I suspect it was the brain dead Microsoft command processor getting involved with this system call.

Anyone care to elaborate? Thanks,

Scott

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