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in reply to Issue with backticks in ActiveState

You probably have a rmdir.exe somewhere in your PATH.
Check to verify: where rmdir.exe.

The rmdir, probably from the unxutils will not accept options with slashes, contrary to the cmd built-in rmdir.

A perl -e "`rmdir /s /q testdir`;" works flawless for me (no exe present here).

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Re^2: Issue with backticks in ActiveState
by freddo411 (Chaplain) on Sep 08, 2009 at 23:06 UTC
    You probably have a rmdir.exe somewhere in your PATH.
    Bingo. Thanks for pointing this out.

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