Re: Backtick execution with spaces in filename

Quote your arguments, eg:

perl -le "$f = qx/cat 'Some File.txt'/; print $f"
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Oops... strange mixture of Windows outer quoting and UNIX inner quotings and commands - thanks cdarke ;-)

perl -le "$f = qx/type \"Some File.txt\"/; print $f"
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I rarely use Windows...;-)
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Re^2: Backtick execution with spaces in filename (was: "Backtick execution with spaces in filename") by Anonymous Monk on Oct 09, 2006 at 08:13 UTC
Sorry, but that won't work on Windows because the quoting on cmd.exe is picky compared to a UNIX shell. The following works: `perl -le "$f = qx/type \"this is a name.pl\"/;print $f"`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Backtick execution with spaces in filename (was: "Backtick execution with spaces in filename") by cdarke (Prior) on Oct 09, 2006 at 08:25 UTC
Sorry, I did not intend to be Anonymous above, my browser lost my login for some reason.	[reply]