How can I call winrar in perl on windows

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Is it possible to call winrar through perl on a windows system, such as

perl -e "rar a -rr10 -s c:\backups\backup.rar @backup.lst"

If so, is there a more efficient way to do this?

I've looked up "perl -e" +winrar on google, however none of the results gave me any answer that was remotely close to what i was looking for. The system Im running this on is a Windows XP system. Im open to doing this in another language like python if its easier, however I am more comfertable with perl.

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