#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use encoding 'utf8'; my $dir = "/tmp/Foo"; unless (-e $dir){ mkdir $dir or die; } chdir $dir or die; opendir my $dh, $dir or die; my @files = readdir $dh; closedir $dh; print "Got ", scalar @files, " files\n"; foreach my $char ("\x{20}", "\x{A0}") { my $file = "foo{$char}bar"; open my $fh, ">", $file or die; } opendir $dh, $dir or die; @files = readdir $dh; closedir $dh; print "Got ", scalar @files, " files\n"; open my $fh, ">", 'foo baz' || die "Failed to open file : $!"; close $fh || die "Failed to close file : $!"; foreach my $char ("\x{20}", "\x{A0}") { my $file = "foo".$char."baz"; if (-e $file){ print "got it\n" } else { print "not got it...\n"; } } system("cat foo\x{20}baz"); system("cat foo\x{A0}baz");