Re: Unix size again

[tobyink]

my ($location) = @_;
$location =~ s{ ([\\\']) }{ '\\' . $1 }gex; # crude escape
print "\n".'Calculating Scan Statistics...'."\n";
my $cmd  = "du -sk '$location'";
warn $cmd;  # let's see what's actually getting executed!
my $size = `cmd`;
print "$size";

[Anonymous Monk]

Its not working gives this when run: du -sk '' at test_2.pl line 5

[Corion]

Then $location is not what you think it is. Debug your script.

[tobyink]

Well, then that means that $location is an empty string, or perhaps undefined. So the problem lies elsewhere in your code. Post more of the script.