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Hi,

I'm still new to perl and have to figure out how to feed a complete directory listing as parameters into another perl script. I've looked around online and found command examples that use words like "cat" "find" "name".....wher e can I go to learn more about using these and any other command line arguments in the Windows environment? So far, every time I google the combination of cat and perl I find that cat is a Unix variable.

Thanks.
Apr 10 '07 #1
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KevinADC
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on windows "dir" generates a directory listing. At the dos prompt type:

dir /?

to get a listing of the options for the dir command. You probably want to use:

dir /B

or just use perl to get the directory listing.
Apr 10 '07 #2

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