Re^4: quoting issue with system command

So something like this:

my $command = “c:\\blast\bin\\blastall.exe" -p blastn -d "$hu_seq $hd_seq" -i "$contig" -o $alignment”;
print "$command\n";
system($command);

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Re^5: quoting issue with system command by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 13, 2009 at 18:14 UTC
Better: `my @command = ("c:\\blast\bin\\blastall.exe", -p => 'blastn', -d => "$hu_seq $hd_seq", -i => $contig, -o => $alignment, ); system(@command);` [download] Note: You've got a problem if `-d` expects space-separated paths if the paths have spaces in them.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: quoting issue with system command by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on May 13, 2009 at 20:26 UTC
You are missing putting delimiters around the whole thing.	[reply]