in reply to processing on the command line

Just quote the path or any single parameter if it contains spaces.

C:\>perl -le "print for @ARGV" "c:\Documents and Settings\All Users" "
+the quick brown fox" the quick brown fox
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users
the quick brown fox
the
quick
brown
fox

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