yea i have correct syntax in my script, i just forgot double-backslash when posting this message. I still don't know how to pass options to the command though.
how would I execute the following dos command in perl? 
xcopy /S d:\somedir r:\somedir

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this should be analagous to executing this (on unix): 
cp -s /somedir /somedir

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Here is a link to my reference point, however the following code does NOT work (and my relative path is correct -- current dir for $src). 
#!D:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -w

use Shell;
$src = "giveto\\kerri";
$dest = "D:\\1234567";
$ops = "\/S";
xcopy($ops,$src,$dest);

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In reply to Re: Re: How to use options in Perl shell? by andyram27
in thread How to use options in Perl shell? by andyram27

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