Ehm ... the only changes you'd have to make so that this does work under Win2k is to use move /Y<code> instead of <code>mv and to put perl before the script.pl.

And you might even do it like this:

perl script.pl < source.txt > result.txt && move /Y result.txt source.
+txt
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Where the && means "execute the second command only if the first one did not return an error"

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