Re: Re:^4 system, pipes, shell, quoting

[superpete]

So you need to cope with the residue of processes that create files whose names consist of randomly selected byte values?

Well, that requirement is for completeness, really. I conjectured that it would not be difficult to deal with (all the "File::" packages can take arbitrary characters). There's probably some really neat 2-line way to do it... i'm hoping Randal Schwartz shows up :-)