Just started perl. Like 2 days ago. Right now i'm *trying* to use it instead of a batch file, because of its better substitution featrues. The only problem is that i cant seem to get it to run, i think partly cause it is a windows machine.

The script is supposed to dump a sever to a local disk, as a rudimetary form of backup. Mainly this is being done for learning.

So here it is. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
#Perl script to backup sever. Jan 7th 2004.
$server = drive;
chomp($date = system("date \t"));
system("mkdir C:\Server Backup\$date");
system("xcopy "C:\Documents and Settings\PD\My Documents\* c:\server B
+ackup\test\"";

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Now i always get errors about improper escapes, and when i use -w, i get problems with main:date. I dont really know what is wrong with this.

20040108 Edit by jeffa: Changed title from 'help.'

In reply to Improper escaping error when executing system command by whiteskin

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