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But you might want double quotes if you're going to be using the shell, as in
system( "dir $path" );
rather than bypassing the shell
system( 'dir', $path )';
Disclaimer: I'm a Unix guy. This would be true on Unix; does "MS-DOS 2010" still have a shell?

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Re^3: windows path problem
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 19, 2010 at 20:13 UTC
    No, you wouldn't. "\" is not special to the cmd shell, and it doesn't use "\" for escaping.