arunmep has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Iam executing windows find command using backtik qx// ia have file that have space between them so when i try to run the command it tries to separate the file names and executing it can anybody give a solution for this thank you

2006-10-09 Retitled by GrandFather, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'hi'

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Re: Backtick execution with spaces in filename
by shmem (Chancellor) on Oct 09, 2006 at 05:47 UTC
    Quote your arguments, eg: 
    perl -le "$f = qx/cat 'Some File.txt'/; print $f"

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    <update>
    Oops... strange mixture of Windows outer quoting and UNIX inner quotings and commands - thanks cdarke ;-) 

    perl -le "$f = qx/type \"Some File.txt\"/; print $f"

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    I rarely use Windows...;-)
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    --shmem 

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      Sorry, but that won't work on Windows because the quoting on cmd.exe is picky compared to a UNIX shell. The following works:
      perl -le "$f = qx/type \"this is a name.pl\"/;print $f"
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        Sorry, I did not intend to be Anonymous above, my browser lost my login for some reason.
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