c:\strawberry>set ... Path="c:\ulisse\dir & test";C:\ulisse\strawberry\perl\site\bin;C:\ulisse\strawberry\perl\bin; ... _TEST="c:\path\dir & test" c:\strawberry>cd %_TEST% c:\path\dir & test>perl -e "print $ENV{PATH}" c:\path\dir & test;C:\strawberry\perl\site\bin;C:\strawberry\perl\bin;C:\strawberry\c\bin; .....