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You can have spaces in filenames on Linux (and Unix) too. And using qq// would avoid all that ugly escaping.

system(qq(cat "$0"));

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Re^3: Print Current Program Source Code
by tinita (Parson) on Aug 18, 2006 at 12:01 UTC
    and
    system('cat', $0);
    would need no quoting at all =)

    update: actually only system(cat => $0); really needs no quotes... isn't that elegant?

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