my $CMD = 'fsutil.exe'; # assuming such thing exists, see above my @PARAMS = ('file', 'setShortName', # borrowed from [atcroft] but without outermost quotes q/C:\Users\James\Music\/ . qq/\N{U+22283}\N{U+35486}/ . qq/\N{U+25079}\N{U+24565}/ . qq/\N{U+32769}\N{U+27468}/ . q/ Vol. 2/ , q/Vol2~00A/ ); my $ret = system $CMD @PARAMS; die unless $ret == 0;