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As easy as FOR %%i IN ( %0 ) DO %%~di%%~piperl -x -S %0 %* More | Login | Reply

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I'm afraid it is not quite that simple (Score:2)

by jand (379) <jand@activestate.com> on 2008.07.31 3:52 (#64127) Journal

I'm "stuck" with just a MacBook in Europe right now, so I can't easily test this, but when i was playing around with this last time I noticed that there were several bugs in cmd.exe that prevented the %~ expansion from working correctly. Things like invoking the batch file and explicitly specifying the .bat extension and/or putting quotes around the command name.
You can find my earlier attempt here: http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/b1880b658b5ab73f [google.com]
It worked for all the test cases I came up with, but is a lot more convoluted than I thought it should.

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