Trying to run shell command through Perl Source

Nik has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Any idea why the following wont work since backticks are interpolating and iam quoting the path?
I work on xp, tried very single combinations 2 hours now and i cant make it work.

print `"/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/bin/htpasswd" -b d:/www/pa
+sswd.txt $username $password` or die $!;
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2006-04-17 Retitled by planetscape, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'Tryign to run shell commnd through Perl Source'

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Re: Trying to run shell command through Perl Source by McDarren (Abbot) on Apr 16, 2006 at 21:21 UTC
Can you please define "wont work"? That is - what is the output/error that you get? Perhaps you might want to consider Apache::Htpasswd - as far as I can see, it should work fine on Win32. Cheers, Darren :)	[reply]
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Re: Trying to run shell command through Perl Source by johngg (Canon) on Apr 16, 2006 at 22:12 UTC
Just wondering if there should be a drive letter at the start of the command. Like `C:` or something. Just a thought. Cheers, JohnGG	[reply] [d/l]
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