If you want to execute a .bat under Windows, then you need to have a script file that Windows understands.

I suggest that you type: "help start"
to see the options for that to make a more complex Windows .bat file.

To capture the output of a shell command (Windows or not) in Perl in the most simple way, use "backticks".

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $result1 = `dir`;
print $result1;

my $result2 = `dir *.txt`;
print $result2;
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