Is there a shell function?

[T]

Hi All,

Widows 7

I am tring to code the following into Raku, but
and stuck in quote hell

fsutil usn readdata "C:/NtUtil/test 1"

Is there one of those fancy system call that will run
the above for me?

Many thanks,
-T

[R.Wieser]

T,

Post by T
Is there one of those fancy system call that will run
the above for me?

You mean like "CreateProcess" in kernel32.dll ?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/processthreadsapi/nf-processthreadsapi-createprocessa

No, can't think of any. :-)

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

[T]

Post by R.Wieser
T,

Post by T
Is there one of those fancy system call that will run
the above for me?

You mean like "CreateProcess" in kernel32.dll ?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/processthreadsapi/nf-processthreadsapi-createprocessa
No, can't think of any. :-)
Regards,
Rudy Wieser

Rats!

[JJ]

Post by R.Wieser
T,

Post by T
Is there one of those fancy system call that will run
the above for me?

You mean like "CreateProcess" in kernel32.dll ?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/processthreadsapi/nf-processthreadsapi-createprocessa
No, can't think of any. :-)
Regards,
Rudy Wieser

Rats!

If it's complicated for you to use, try `ShellExecute()` or the old
`WinExec()`.

[T]

Post by JJ

Post by R.Wieser
T,

Post by T
Is there one of those fancy system call that will run
the above for me?

You mean like "CreateProcess" in kernel32.dll ?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/processthreadsapi/nf-processthreadsapi-createprocessa
No, can't think of any. :-)
Regards,
Rudy Wieser

Rats!

If it's complicated for you to use, try `ShellExecute()` or the old
`WinExec()`.

Bugs that stopped me:

qqx, shell not operating quotes properly
https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/issues/3518

How should Proc::Async.new, run and shell call cmd.exe?
https://github.com/Raku/problem-solving/issues/20

I work around them by writing out the commands to a
batch file and then executing the batch file

[Bonita Montero]

Post by T
Hi All,
Widows 7
I am tring to code the following into Raku, but
and stuck in quote hell
fsutil usn readdata "C:/NtUtil/test 1"
Is there one of those fancy system call that will run
the above for me?

Does this help:
https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/system.html

[T]

Post by Bonita Montero

Post by T
Hi All,
Widows 7
I am tring to code the following into Raku, but
and stuck in quote hell
fsutil usn readdata "C:/NtUtil/test 1"
Is there one of those fancy system call that will run
the above for me?

https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/system.html

Turns out there is a bug in Raku when calling cmd and
friends when a parameter has a space in it.

I workaround it by writing the command out to a batch
file and then executing the batch file.