'hskip' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

Question

cmd = "perl -pe 's|hskip(.*?)(cm\\|in\\|pt\\|mm\\|em)|hspace{\\1\\2}|g' %s > %s"%(input_file, 
output_file)
ret = subprocess.call(cmd, shell=True)
if ret != 0:
   logging.error('FAILED: %s'%cmd)

Error output:

'hskip' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
2021-02-21 16:39:46,454 root  ERROR    FAILED: perl -pe 's|hskip(.*?)(cm\|in\|pt\|mm\|em)|hspace{\1\2}|g' .\data\sample\im2latex_formulas.lst > .\data\sample\formul`as.norm.lst     
2021-02-21 16:39:46,457 root  INFO  Jobs finished**

Not a [latex] question! :) – MattAllegro Feb 21 '21 at 12:56 — MattAllegro, Feb 21 '21 at 12:56
Not a [perl] question either – ikegami Feb 22 '21 at 08:11 — ikegami, Feb 22 '21 at 08:11

Håkon Hægland · Answer 1 · 2021-02-21T11:43:25.320

3

If you are on Windows, you should use double quotes instead of single quotes:

For example:

cmd = 'perl -pe "s|hskip|hspace|g" in.txt > out.txt'
ret = subprocess.call(cmd, shell=True)

'hskip' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

Error output:

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