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But you might want double quotes if you're going to be using the shell, as in 
system( "dir $path" );

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rather than bypassing the shell 
system( 'dir', $path )';

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Disclaimer: I'm a Unix guy. This would be true on Unix; does "MS-DOS 2010" still have a shell?

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