in reply to filenames with spaces causing problems

Instead of using ls you could just use perl e.g 
use IO::Dir;

my @files = grep -f, IO::Dir->new(".")->read;

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That's just one simple approach, whereas you may prefer to expand it using opendir and readdir or even File::Find::Rule.
HTH

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Re: Re: filenames with spaces causing problems
by drake50 (Pilgrim) on Jul 11, 2003 at 12:44 UTC
    Yeah but I don't always want to do every file or directory. I'd rather be able to pass a list as an argument so the program is more flexable.
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      Then pass in the directory that you're listing, and better still, use that in conjunction with File::Find::Rule e.g 
      use File::Find::Rule;

my $dir = shift;

die "$0: invalid directory $dir\n"
  unless -d $dir;

my @files = find(
  name => '*.mp3',
  in   => $dir
);

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      I think you'll find that you'll be able to get a lot more flexibility and extensibility if you build the file listing into the program (not that there's anything wrong with using command line tools of course).
      HTH

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