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in thread quoting/escaping file names

You want to quote the string properly for your shell. Most likely String::ShellQuote will do what you want.

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Re^4: quoting/escaping file names
by afoken (Chancellor) on Sep 10, 2014 at 17:46 UTC
    You want to quote the string properly for your shell.

    Perhaps. Or better, avoid the shell and use the list form of system or exec, as documented in perlipc. (Unless, of course, we're talking about Windows, where the quoting rules can differ from program to program because programs are invoked with a single argument string instead of a list of arguments.)

    Most likely String::ShellQuote will do what you want.

    No. It did not keep its promise in 2005, and despite a minor update, it still does not in 2014. It still lacks support for any shell except that one unnamed and unversioned shell the author tested against. It still lacks proper tests, and it still does not support Windows, DOS, OS/2, and any other OS that does not exclusively use a bourne shell.

    Alexander

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      The fact that it only supports one family of shells is not a bug.

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