I'm useing readpipe() to execute a cmd for me that I need info back from. It works, but only kind of.... here's what's happening.

@info = readpipe("ls (somefile without spaces in filename)");

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The above works well. I like it. However... 
@info = readpipe("ls (some file with spaces in filename)");

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Gives me errors stating that the Shell doesn't know what to do with the command. Eg
root@bard:/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin# perl test.pl
ls: /mnt/mp3/misc/Toto: No such file or directory
ls: -: No such file or directory
ls: Africa.ogg: No such file or directory

Suggesstions? I have tried escaping the spaces, and that doesn't work either.

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