Mac::FileSpec::Unixish provides two functions, `nativize' and `unixify' (both of which are exported by default), that will allow you to denote and manipulate pathspecs in Unixish style, and let you convert these pathspecs to and from the native OS's format for conveying such things. It currently assumes that if you are not running under MacOS (as reported in `$^O'), you must be on a Unix box. If you want better, use File::Spec -- in essence, Mac::FileSpec::Unixish is a cheap hack to get around using File::Spec.