Re^2: handle special character in filename

[BillKSmith]

in reply to Re: handle special character in filename
in thread handle special character in filename

The list form may work in this case, but I doubt that it will if the special character is a space. I have been unable to truly solve a similiar problem where system does not correctly parse a command that includes filenames that contain spaces.

[i5513]

Hello

I have test system $command,@params with sed and a file with space in its filename, and it works (at least in Debian)

$ echo "pa" > "a b"
$ cat p
system ("sed","s,a,o,","a b");
$ perl p
po

[moritz]

The list form may work in this case, but I doubt that it will if the special character is a space.

Don't doubt, try:

$ perl -wE 'system("perl", "-wE", "say q[a b]")'
a b

So a space in an argument of the LIST form of system works fine.