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Re: path is broken

by mirod (Canon)
on Dec 07, 2000 at 00:07 UTC ( [id://45302]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to path is broken

To pass a file name with spaces to the shell you have to backslash the file names:

$filename=~ s/(\s)/\\$1/g;
$line_count = `wc -l $filename`;

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