I'm not understanding how the backticks operator is working in ActiveState. How can I execute $cmd so that it "works" as I intend? 
foreach ( 7100 .. 7114 ) {
    my $path = File::Spec->catdir( $topdir, "$_/hosted/docs/cdm4/msoff
+ice" );
    my $cmd = "rmdir /s /q $path";
    print "$cmd \n";
    print `$cmd` . "\n";
}

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Some output shows that it is doing something funny to the /s and /q cmdline options of rmdir. 
rmdir /s /q D:\sites\cust\7112\hosted\docs\cdm4\msoffice
rmdir: failed to remove `/s': No such file or directory
rmdir: failed to remove `/q': No such file or directory
rmdir: failed to remove `D:\\sites\\cust\\7112\\hosted\\docs\\cdm4\\ms
+office': Directory not empty

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I'm running: 
D:\z>perl -v <br>
This is perl, v5.10.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread

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