Quotes around a filename containing spaces would be required with a UNIX shell variable (except inside [[...]]), but not a perl variable.

As others, I have been unable to reproduce this and suspect it is a coincidence. ^M is usually \r which has come from a Windows file. So I tried a 450k Windows file on Linux, i.e. with ^M characters, and it reported the file as text. I suspect that ^M (\r) is considered to be text.

I don't find -T and -B particularly reliable anyway. From perlfunc:
If too many strange characters (>30%) are found, it's a -B file; otherwise it's a -T file.

You might be better off search for a magic number instead (see the UNIX file(1) command).

In reply to Re: File test -T (text) and quoted filenames by cdarke
in thread File test -T (text) and quoted filenames by AdamtheKiwi

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