Sure it does, sure it works, provided you don't have a dir.exe installed ( Re: Backtick failure in Windows 7 (common pitfall), Re^2: perl windows backtick problem, Re^2: IPC::Run3 error )

If you want it more robust ("avoid" shell) and capture the output see Re^3: how to dir a directory that have space

I've tested both of them and they both work ( Re^3: how to dir a directory that have space and Re: how to dir a directory that have space )

No it does not work.

Works for me:

C:\test>perl -we"my $dir = 'c:\\program files\\'; print for `dir \"$di
+r\" /s /b /o:-s`"
c:\program files\7-Zip
c:\program files\Bin
c:\program files\Common Files
c:\program files\Core Temp
c:\program files\CPUID
c:\program files\Direct Modeling Express 4.0
c:\program files\Extras
c:\program files\GlowCode 9.0
c:\program files\Hitman Pro 3.5
...
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It works ok if run it in single line. But when i put it in script it does not. Anyway i'm using below code to do the same and it's working ok. Basically i'm searching for newest specific file name in sub-folders that starts with "K"

 
opendir my $dh, $source_directory or die "error: open '$source_directo
+ry'";
my @paths = grep { /^K/} readdir $dh;
closedir $dh;
$p=0;
foreach (@paths){
opendir SUB_DIR,"$source_directory$paths[$p]";
     while(our $file = readdir(SUB_DIR)) {
        if(($file =~ /$ID/) && ($file =~ /xls$/)){ 
        @files = $file;
        @FilePath = "$source_directory$paths[$p]";
        }
     }
$p++;     
}


print "\nFile = $FilePath[0]\\$files[0]\n";
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