programming-examples/perl/Win32/To change the attributes, you can call SetAttributes.pl

use Win32::File;

Win32::File::SetAttributes($name, $attr);

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use Win32::File;

$name  = "yourFile.txt";
$attr  = 0;

Win32::File::GetAttributes($name, $attr) or die "Can't get attributes for $name.";

print "File attributes: $attr\n";

if ($attr & READONLY) {
    print "$name is read only.\n";
}

if ($attr & ARCHIVE) {
    print "$name has ARCHIVE set.\n";
}

if ($attr & HIDDEN) {
    print "$name is hidden.\n";
}

if ($attr & SYSTEM) {
    print "$name has SYSTEM set.\n";
}

if ($attr & COMPRESSED) {
    print "$name has COMPRESSED set.\n";
}

if ($attr & DIRECTORY) {
    print "$name has DIRECTORY set.\n";
}

if ($attr & NORMAL) {
    print "$name has NORMAL set.\n";
}

if ($attr & OFFLINE) {
    print "$name has OFFLINE set.\n";
}

if ($attr & TEMPORARY) {
    print "$name has TEMPORARY set.\n";
}