Re^5: System() in list mode?

by zentara (Archbishop)

on Oct 18, 2011 at 12:59 UTC ( [id://932144]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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Put single quotes around the path.

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Re^6: System() in list mode? by 1337John (Initiate) on Oct 18, 2011 at 14:36 UTC
...... Hm I'm not sure but if you could give me an example, then maybe it'll make more sense.	[reply]
Re^7: System() in list mode? by zentara (Archbishop) on Oct 18, 2011 at 15:15 UTC
You sound like a troll, but just in case you are in earnest `system ('tar', '-zcvf', 'my_tarball.tgz', '/mypath with spaces/dir' );` [download] I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Old Perl Programmer Haiku ................... flash japh	[reply] [d/l]
Re^8: System() in list mode? by 1337John (Initiate) on Oct 18, 2011 at 19:41 UTC
What if your path had an apostrophe (single-quote) in it, in addition to a space, and that path was stored in a variable (i.e. not hard-coded)?	[reply]
Re^9: System() in list mode? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 19, 2011 at 00:58 UTC

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