Find all shortcuts (Perl)

This code can be found in Chapter 8 of Windows XP Cookbook

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# From the book "Windows XP Cookbook"
# ISBN: 0596007256

# ------ SCRIPT CONFIGURATION ------

use Win32::OLE qw(in);

$strComputer = '.';
# ------ END CONFIGURATION ---------
$objWMI = Win32::OLE->GetObject('winmgmts:\\\\' . $strComputer . '\\root\\cimv2');
$colSCs = $objWMI->InstancesOf('Win32_ShortcutFile');
foreach my $objSC (in $colSCs) {
    print 'Name: ' . $objSC->Name, "\n";
    print 'Target: ' . $objSC->Target, "\n";
    print "\n";
    $intCount = $intCount + 1;
}
print "Total shortcuts: $intCount\n";

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