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Hi,

I am getting following error
"
"Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not
have the appropriate permission to access the item."

When i tried to pass a list consisting of 300 file names.

Scenario:

folder F:\Testing\loc\

Contains around 300 files

I have to pass these files as parameter to one perl script .pl,
where these files are processed( opened and read).

Alg:

take each file and concatenate them to a list

like:

while($filename = readdir(DIR))
{
$list .= $filename;
}

At the end, the list contains 300 file names.

When I pass this as parameter to .pl file in windows it is throwing
error:

"Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not
have the appropriate permission
to access the item."

But when I create list of around 70 files and pass then it is working
fine.

But passing list of files as argument in linux is working fine. But
failing in windows.

Is there any alternative way to resolve this problem.

Thanks & Regards
Gururaja

guru <> wrote:


> I am getting following error
> "
> "Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not
> have the appropriate permission to access the item."


> take each file and concatenate them to a list
>
> like:
>
> while($filename = readdir(DIR))
> {
> $list .= $filename;
> }


So if readdir() returns "1.doc" and "2.doc", then $list (which is not a list)
will contain "1.doc2.doc".

Is that what you wanted to do?

Did you try printing out $list after the while loop?


--
Tad McClellan
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guru wrote:
>
> while($filename = readdir(DIR))
> {
> $list .= $filename;
> }

How about

my $list = join ' ', readdir DIR;

--
Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl

guru wrote:
>
> folder F:\Testing\loc\
>
> Contains around 300 files
>
> I have to pass these files as parameter to one perl script .pl,
> where these files are processed( opened and read).
>
> Alg:
>
> take each file and concatenate them to a list
>
> like:
>
> while($filename = readdir(DIR))
> {
> $list .= $filename;
> }
>
> At the end, the list contains 300 file names.
>
> When I pass this as parameter to .pl file in windows it is throwing
> error:
>
> "Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not
> have the appropriate permission
> to access the item."

Can it possibly be that there is a space in one or more of the files? In
that case you may want to try:

my $list = '"' . join('" "', grep !/^\.{1,2}/, readdir DIR) . '"';

--
Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl

guru wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am getting following error
> "
> "Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not
> have the appropriate permission to access the item."
>
> When i tried to pass a list consisting of 300 file names.
>
> Scenario:
>
> folder F:\Testing\loc\
>
> Contains around 300 files
>
> I have to pass these files as parameter to one perl script .pl,
> where these files are processed( opened and read).

How are you passing the files and how is the other program
reading the input?