Avoid the shell.

use warnings;
use strict;

use IPC::System::Simple 'capturex';

while (my $fn=<DATA>) {
    chomp($fn);
    $fn=~s/\\n/\n/g; # test filenames with newlines
    print "Filename: <<<$fn>>>\n";
    # Method 1: capturex
    my $m1 = capturex('echo','-n',$fn);
    print "capturex: ", $m1 eq $fn ? "PASS" : "FAIL <<<$fn>>>", "\n";
    # Method 2: piped open
    open my $pipe, '-|', 'echo', '-n', $fn or die $!;
    my $m2 = do { local $/; <$pipe> };
    close $pipe or die $! ? $! : "\$?=$?";
    print "open: ", $m2 eq $fn ? "PASS" : "FAIL <<<$fn>>>", "\n";
}

__DATA__
$vaa it's not.txt
/mnt1/$Recycle.Bin/S-1-5-21-3093161954-3198/$I7QM78L.pdf
/tmp/File Wasn't found.txt
! @ # $ % ^ & * ( - + = { ] | \ : ; " ' < , . / ? ~ `
filename\nwith\newlines

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All PASS on my system (Linux).

In reply to Re^3: quoting/escaping file names by Anonymous Monk
in thread quoting/escaping file names by famatte

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