You don't need to escape the directory with \ if you use single 's. That turns off the " interpolation which can be annoying.

Win95 and NT dir output sound as though they behave differently. It may be more portable with opendir and readdir - try and avoid the dir command or other system calls on Win95 - not portable.

Code adapted from perldoc -f readdir...

 
my $some_dir = 'c:/temp';

opendir(DIR, $some_dir) || die "can't opendir $some_dir: $!";
my @dots = readdir(DIR);
closedir DIR;

print "Linha: $_\n" for @dots;
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Note that opendir doesn't care about OS specific directory separators.

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