in reply to Using wildcards to open files.

Do any of those .msg files have spaces in their names?

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Re^2: Using wildcards to open files.
by starface245 (Novice) on Oct 25, 2012 at 15:52 UTC
    Yes it does have spaces in the name.
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      That's causing your problem. You are only using the chunk before the first space for each file.

      I haven't had a chance to test this in your exact usage situation, but try the following. It replaces spaces in the file names with escaped spaces.

      #!/usr/bin/perl
@files = glob("*.msg");
foreach $file(@files) {
    $file =~ s/ /\\\ /g;
    $cmd = "perl script.pl < $file";
    system($cmd);
}

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