in reply to Trying to convert shell script to Perl

For a more Perl-ish version, try something like this...

use Cwd ; my $curr_dir = cwd ; opendir DIR , $curr_dir ; for my $DIR ( grep { /^[a-k]/ || /^lts$/ || /^mon$/ || /^[n-z]/ } readdir( DIR ) ) { if ( -d "$DIR/bld" ) { chdir "$DIR/bld" ; system 'cbsfpfg.exe', ( 'cbs' . $DIR . $RELEASE ), $DIR ; chdir $curr_dir ; } } closedir DIR ;

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