in reply to help adding a paramter to an executable i am running

Hi, first use the CODE tag like this:
<code>
to enclose your source code.

I would recommend you type

perldoc perlfunc
and read the docs on system. But in your case:
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; my @args = ('C:\\WINDOWS\\System\\deltree.exe', '/y'); system @args == 0 or die "error: $!";
should work.