Re^2: handle special character in filename

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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.

Bill

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Re^3: handle special character in filename by moritz (Cardinal) on Oct 18, 2012 at 05:31 UTC
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` [download] So a space in an argument of the LIST form of system works fine. Perl 6 - the future is here, just unevenly distributed	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: handle special character in filename by i5513 (Pilgrim) on Oct 17, 2012 at 23:24 UTC
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` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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