From: Roger Pack Date: 2012-10-12T22:39:15+09:00 Subject: Re: && should work in a system call? > This is purely an educated guess... it possibly matters whether you have a > SHELL environment variable set. If you do and it's set to bash or sh or csh, > I think that this will work correctly. If it's not set, you'll get the > Windows shell: cmd.exe - I don't think that it will grok &&. Yes, I was surprised to learn that, at least with windows OS's I've tried, cmd.exe *does* understand &&. I'll be honest it surprised me :) -r