I'm using AS perl on win7.
print `cd \\\\ `; # does nothing, says nothing
Same with qx()
print `dir \\\\ `; # correctly prints the root directory
other commands also seem to work fine.
cd works fine from the command line of a batch file.
Has anyone else seen this? Is there a workaround?
You may be looking for chdir. Using a shell command in backticks is not going to have a lasting effect. When you run a backtick command, you spawn a new shell, execute the command, and return the standard output to Perl. Then the shell exits and any and all changes to it is lost.