in reply to Set environment variable for one time system command windows
In both branches of your if statement, your string contains meta-characters, but on unix the shell expands environment variables as each statement is executed, while on windows they are only expanded once when the line is read. On my windows server, this is what happens when I run your command:
I need to invoke the shell once more to make it work.R:\>set test=hello && echo %test% %test%
R:\>set test=hello && cmd /c "echo %test%" hello
This should work:
use strict; use warnings; if($^O =~ /mswin32/i){ system(qq!set test=hello && cmd /c "echo %test%"!); }else{ system("test=hello; export test; echo \$test"); }
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