From: Chris Wagner <wagnerc@plebeian.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Windowless Perl
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 20:13:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3a0322aa51937847ea35009b77c1aa34@plebeian.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a7epgs5t.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
On 2019-06-10 3:24 pm, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Chris Wagner writes:
>> Perl maintainers, I was wondering why the Cygwin Perl distribution
>> does not contain a windowless Perl executable, wperl.exe.
>
> Because nobody needs it?
>
>> Directly executing the standard perl.exe from Windows causes a command
>> console to pop up. I've had it before in other distros but it would
>> be super handy to execute completely headless Perl scripts with Cygwin
>> access.
>
> That's what "run" is for, actually.
Well I would have a good use for it.
I didn't know about run, thanks for the tip. However when I use it to
launch something from the Start Menu Run command, it still pops open a
terminal window of some kind for a fraction of a second. I'm on Windows
7.
Thanks.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-10 17:56 Chris Wagner
2019-06-10 19:24 ` Achim Gratz
2019-06-10 20:13 ` Chris Wagner [this message]
2019-06-10 21:23 ` Bill Stewart
2019-06-11 18:12 ` L A Walsh
2019-06-18 15:35 ` Andrey Repin
2019-06-18 18:15 ` Jon Turney
2019-06-19 19:17 ` Brian Inglis
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