passing DOS command in perl

[Trina Espinoza]

Trying to send a DOS command using perl, but get a little confused as to how 
this changes when passing this in as a system call in perl.

The DOS command:

C:\>del /q /S "c:\Documents and Settings\test\Local Settings\Temp\*.*"

When I run the command in perl I try escaping the second set of quotes to 
pass the command, but that fails to work. I have also tried passing it along 
with single quotes and escaping the spaces no avail .Can anyone offer up 
some info on how I should pass this?

Example of one failed attempt :(
system("del /q /S \"c:\Documents and Settings\test\Local 
Settings\Temp\*.*\"");

As usual, thanks for reading this!

-T

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