I suspect that this is related to internal commands infact when you say individual program i suspect that internal commands do not like slashes, while all other ones accept both slashes and backslashes.

See ss64.com where internal commands have a dot after the name.

Given that dir and type are internal commands and ls (UnxUtils version) and icacls are not, you can see the difference:

# dir not OK
perl -wMstrict -le "my $path = 'c:/scripts/resized';my @dirs = `dir $p
+ath`;print qq(@dirs)"
Formato del parametro non corretto - "scripts".

# ls OK
perl -wMstrict -le "my $path = 'c:/scripts/resized';my @dirs = `ls $pa
+th`;print qq(@dirs)"
# OK long output omitted

#type not OK
perl -wMstrict -le "my $path = 'c:/scripts/resized/zen-small.pl';my @d
+irs = `type $path`; print qq(@dirs)"
c:/scripts/resized/zen-small.pl not found

# icacls OK
perl -wMstrict -le "my $path = 'c:/scripts/resized';my @dirs = `icacls
+ $path`;print @dirs"
c:/scripts/resized BUILTIN\Administrators:(I)(F)
                   BUILTIN\Administrators:(I)(OI)(CI)(IO)(F)
                   NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(I)(F)
                   NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(I)(OI)(CI)(IO)(F)
                   BUILTIN\Users:(I)(OI)(CI)(RX)
                   NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users:(I)(M)
                   NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users:(I)(OI)(CI)(IO)(M)

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is fun also to see different languages for errors issued (italian coming from the OS and english).

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In reply to Re^4: moving from mac to PC -- win internal commands by Discipulus
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