[Jaey]

Why can I not do

Code:
system("cd /anywhere");

I always get the "No such file or directory" error.

[Brass]

Don't know why. But in any case, is there any reason you're not using:

chdir "/anywhere"

?

system should only really be used for things that Perl doesn't provide itself.

[Jaey]

Eh, I didn't know about chdir. Thanks

[qyn]

system() spawns a shell (in a separate process). So your sub-process cd's to the directory just fine, but YOUR process stays put. Unless you use chdir().