Dear Monks

I'm having a issue.
I'm using Linux and need to list all files from a Windows NTFS filesystem and perform some "actions".
my input will come linux "find" command or from " my $filename = $File::Find::name;" and I would like to "process" the file like ... $exec = `dosomething '$filename'`;

I found files like "$vaa it's not.txt" (here double quoted).

The issue is :
If I use double quotes, Perl will try to assign a value to $vaa .
If I use single quote, Perl tells me that there's a something wrong.

I already tried a lot of substitutions, with $filename =~ s/\'/\\\'/g; but nothing worked for a name like that.

Remember, in the same line (filename) $, space and single quote.

Can you help me ?

In reply to quoting/escaping file names by famatte

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