I have a somewhat simple program that reads a list of file/dir names from the command line and then attempts to group them in as close to 700MB as possible chunks. This is of course so I can burn as many mp3 folders on one cd as possible.

The command line looks like:
$mp3concat -s 700 `ls`

All is well so long as there are no spaces in the filenames. But as soon as a file has a space in it's name the program goes haywire.

I create my file list with
my (@filelist) = @ARGV;

And then later try to use it with
foreach $file(@filelist) {

The real problem seems to hit when I try
move($file, "disc$disc/$file") or warn "move $file to disc$disc/$file failed: $!\n"

$disc dir has been made at this point and the move works with spaceless names. What do I need to do so that names with spaces also work? Any ideas?

In reply to filenames with spaces causing problems by drake50

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