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in reply to Backslashes in command arguements

tygu: you can often also use unix-style slashes instead of the Windows-style backslash escaped with another backslash. For example, on my XP laptop any of below work fine with glob: 
my @filelist = glob( "c:\\temp\\*" );
my @filelist = glob( "c:/temp/*" );
my @filelist = glob( "//foobar/CDShare/*" );
my @filelist = glob( "//foobar/c\$/temp/*" );

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Note that the Windows Admin share (C$) is shown with the $ escaped (C\$).

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