IPC::Ru...Process(3)

✨ NAME ✨

IPC::Run::Win32Process is the class for delivering nonstandard command lines via IPC::Run. This page comes from the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection, and it's here to help you understand the whole vibe. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

Okay bestie, here's the exact setup — copy it character for character:

use File::Spec ();
use IPC::Run qw(run);
use IPC::Run::Win32Process ();
use Win32 ();

$find_exe = File::Spec->catfile(Win32::GetFolderPath(Win32::CSIDL_SYSTEM),
                                'find.exe');
run(IPC::Run::Win32Process->new($ENV{COMSPEC}, q{cmd.exe /c echo ""}),
    '|', IPC::Run::Win32Process->new($find_exe, q{find_exe """"""}),
    '>', \$out);

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This class is literally here to help you execute Windows programs that don't use standard command line parsing rules — the docs link is right here, no cap: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/cpp/main-function-command-line-args#parsing-c-command-line-arguments.

Programs with these chaotic nonstandard rules include cmd.exe, cscript.exe, and Cygwin programs when they're called from non-Cygwin programs. Notable. 👑

IPC::Run will use the two strings, verbatim, as the lpApplicationName and lpCommandLine arguments of CreateProcessA(). That gives you unfiltered control over the child process command line. It's giving raw, direct, no-filter energy. ✨

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🎀 FUNCTIONS & METHODS 🎀

💖 new 💖

IPC::Run::Win32Process->new( $lpApplicationName, $lpCommandLine );
IPC::Run::Win32Process->new( $ENV{COMSPEC}, q{cmd.exe /c echo ""} );

Constructor. That's it — that's the whole function. 🫶

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source/version check, bestie: perl v5.42.2 · dated 2026-04-03 · slay, go build something iconic 💖