AndrewMcHorney wrote:
I am trying to build a string that contains the following text "dir c:\ /S"
Use single quotes: my $command = 'dir c:\ /s';
so I can get a complete directory of all the files on drive C and put them into an array with the following line of code - @dir_list = 'dir c:\ /S`;
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