I should add that this gets run immediately after via
my $output = `$cmd`
if that makes any difference.
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Kevin McGregor kevin.a.mcgregor@gmail.com wrote:
I'm trying to decipher some Perl code which runs on a Windows server, and I ran into this:
$cmd = "./psexec.exe \\\\" . $server_name
I think the idea is to end up with
./psexec.exe \server
but WTF eight backslashes? Does that make any sense? If so, can someone ELI5?
Kevin