Perl program does not receive Window command-line arguments?

Question

Ive just gotten a new computer at work and Im trying to get perl up and running on it. I have a problem with Perl not reading command line input when I execute the script.

I use Win7 and if I call the script from the command line like this:

myscript.pl 1 2 3

It does not receive the supplied 1 2 3, but if I call it like this:

perl myscript.pl 1 2 3

It does.

This first example worked for me before and all of the scripts that we use at work calls perl scripts like that.

assoc .pl

gives me

.pl=Perl

and ftype perl

gives me

perl=C:\Perl64\Bin\perl.exe "%1" %*

Any ideas?

Prior to this, did you work on Linux?

NedStarkOfWinterfell
– NedStarkOfWinterfell

2012-09-06 05:58:06 +00:00
Commented Sep 6, 2012 at 5:58 — NedStarkOfWinterfell
– NedStarkOfWinterfell, Commented Sep 6, 2012 at 5:58

Ja͢ck · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-06 11:14:29Z

2

You can try to remove the following registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.pl

It should "reset" the wrong behaviour and make it honour the run settings you have configured.

edited Sep 6, 2012 at 11:14

answered Sep 6, 2012 at 6:03

Ja͢ck

174k39 gold badges269 silver badges316 bronze badges

Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

3 Comments

Linus Brandett Over a year ago

Sorry for my slow reply i fix it using another method but your method just helped a colleague :).

Steve Over a year ago

@LinusBrandett how did you fix it? This solution didn't help me.

Steve Over a year ago

Removing HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pl solved the problem for me

Gilles Maisonneuve · Accepted Answer · 2024-09-14 17:58:26Z

0

Faced the same problem after "installing" Strawberry Perl portable.

Solution that worked for me:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\perl.exe\shell\open\command (Default) REG_SZ "C:\Perl\perl\bin\perl.exe" %1 %*

answered Sep 14, 2024 at 17:58

Gilles Maisonneuve

1431 silver badge7 bronze badges

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

Perl program does not receive Window command-line arguments?

2 Answers 2

3 Comments

Comments

Your Answer

Hot Network Questions

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

2 Answers 2

3 Comments

Comments

Your Answer

Sign up or log in

Post as a guest

Related