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launch a DOS program from a Perl script?

Tags: perl, dos, launch, script
This is what I need to do:

I have many files like this:
c:\dir\pippo-red.html
c:\dir\paperino-yellow.html
c:\dir\pluto-red.html
c:\dir\gastone-green.html

I have a HTML2TXT.EXE program that converts files from html to txt (removing the tags etc...).

The syntax of this program is: "HTML2TXT htmlfilename.htm > txtfilename.txt"

I want to convert all and only the file which path-name match "c:\dir\*-red.html". The output files must have the suffix "-text" in the filename and ".txt" as extension.

In a few words the Perl script in this example must execute the command two times like this:
HTML2TXT c:\dir\pippo-red.html > c:\dir\pippo-red-text.txt
HTML2TXT c:\dir\pluto-red.html > c:\dir\pluto-red-text.txt


Do you know how can I do this?


Thanks in advance for any help
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Question Asked By: lucavilla
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