Do you call the command in the script using back-ticks or
system? Furthermore, have you tried to escape the \? It
might be that you need to do that because the \ might just
escape the space, perl converts it into a plain space and
hands that over to the shell. So make sure that the \ is
handed to the shell, by either using single quotes in the
system call or escaping the \ (so using
Program\\ Files). Maybe you might want to use
the
Archive::Tar
module instead to do it directly from perl.
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use signature;
signature(" So long\nAlfie");