One of the raisons d'etre of perl is precisely to create a programming environment where shell commands can as far as possible be avoided in favour of the rich portable facilities perl offers. Okay, so it's one line in the shell or DOS. However, you could do a search and replace e.g. with perl -e to convert `cat x > y` into Cat( x,y ) so as to use something portable like:- 
sub Cat{
  local $/=undef();
  open my $fh, "<" . shift();
  open my $gh, ">" . shift();
  $_=<$fh>; print $gh $_;
  close $fh, $gh;
}

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In reply to Re: UNIX shell commands in Windows by anonymized user 468275
in thread UNIX shell commands in Windows by magnus

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