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I'm not understanding how the backticks operator is working in ActiveState. How can I execute $cmd so that it "works" as I intend?
foreach ( 7100 .. 7114 ) { my $path = File::Spec->catdir( $topdir, "$_/hosted/docs/cdm4/msoff +ice" ); my $cmd = "rmdir /s /q $path"; print "$cmd \n"; print `$cmd` . "\n"; }
Some output shows that it is doing something funny to the /s and /q cmdline options of rmdir.
rmdir /s /q D:\sites\cust\7112\hosted\docs\cdm4\msoffice rmdir: failed to remove `/s': No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove `/q': No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove `D:\\sites\\cust\\7112\\hosted\\docs\\cdm4\\ms +office': Directory not empty
I'm running:
D:\z>perl -v <br> This is perl, v5.10.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread

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