I think you want to just quote your values in your shell: 
use warnings;
use strict;
use Getopt::Long;

my $location;
my $user_cfg;

#Define argument types
GetOptions('location=s' => \$location,
       'cfg=s' => \$user_cfg);

#Check if cfg option was specified
if ($user_cfg) {
     #Replace any spaces found in a "quoted" filename
     #i.e. ("sample test" --> "sample-test")
         $user_cfg =~ s/\s+/-/g;
}

print "location = $location\n";
print "cfg File = $user_cfg\n";

__END__


$ ./my_script --cfg='my test 2.cfg' --location='fake location name'

location = fake location name
cfg File = my-test-2.cfg

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is there some kind of global variable (like $?, $!, etc...) that holds that entire line just executed through the command line
$0 stores the command name and @ARGV stores all the arguments. Getopt::Long parses @ARGV.

In reply to Re: Parsing Command Line Options by toolic
in thread Parsing Command Line Options by mmartin

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