in reply to How do I call a DOS command with a /C variable in PERL ?

As Fletch says, what you want to do is to quote the command like so: 
`your command here`

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But that may not work since there seems to be odd behavior in ActiveState's implementation of system() and `` calls as I noted in this node.

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(crazyinsomniac) re^2: How do I call a DOS command with a /C variable in PERL ?
by crazyinsomniac (Prior) on Jan 27, 2002 at 12:10 UTC
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