Hello monks , I am converting an old shell script to perl , I came through this for loop but don't know how to exactlly do it in perl .. 
 
for DIR in `ls -d [a-k]* lts mon [n-z]*`
   do
        if [ -d $DIR/bld ]; then
        cd $DIR/bld
        cbsfpfg.exe `echo "cbs"$DIR$RELEASE $DIR`
        cd ../..
    fi
   done

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not sure how to change the for loop.don't seem to work when I try : 
my $DIR;
for $DIR in `ls -d [a-k]* lts mon [n-z]*`
   do
        if (-d $DIR/bld){
        system (qq(cd $DIR/bld));
        system(qq(cbsfpfg.exe `echo "cbs"$DIR$RELEASE $DIR`));
        system (qq(cd ../..));
    }
   done

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edited: Mon Aug 5 22:14:09 2002 by jeffa - title change (was: shell problem)

In reply to Trying to convert shell script to Perl by DS

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