How to copy files with Chinese names and special characters in Suse Linux?

anne3294 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

i use Suse Linux.

i wanna copy all files listed in file:list4, but they are Chinese files with Chinese file names.

variable $1 and $2 are direcory names, and $3 is the Chinese file name.

almost half of the files are copied successfully, with the code as the follws :

system("cp $spath$1/$2/$3 $tpath$3");

however, if there are space,quotes, brackets, or dash lines in the file names, then the above code won't work.

if i add double quotes to variable $3, like :

system("cp $spath$1/$2/"$3" $tpath$3");

the syntax error messages are :

(Missing operator before $3?)

(Missing operator before " $tpath"?)

so,execution aborted due to compilation errors.

is there anyway to copy files with Chinese names and special characters in Suse Linux?

Thanks for any advise in advance !

-- Anne

<code>

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Cwd;

use strict;

use utf8;

my $tpath="/tmp/ttmp/";

my $spath="/opt/myfirstbank/uploadDir/";

open(F,"list4") or die "Cannot open list2. $!\n";

while (<F>)

{

$_=~/^(.*?)\/(.*?)\/(.*?)\s/;

system("print $1/$2\n");

system("cp $spath$1/$2/"$3" $tpath$3");

}

close F;
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Re: How to copy files with Chinese names and special characters in Suse Linux? by moritz (Cardinal) on Jun 16, 2011 at 08:52 UTC
`use File::Copy; copy("$spath$1/$2/$3", "$tpath$3");` [download] In general, for running shell commands with whitespace in the arguments, use the LIST form of system (described in the docs). Perl 6 - second systems done right	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: How to copy files with Chinese names and special characters in Suse Linux? by anne3294 (Initiate) on Jun 20, 2011 at 08:19 UTC
Thanks for answering this question. But, that doesn't work, and the message is that "there is no such directory or file" when there is whitespace in file name. Does anyone has any other ideas ? Thanks for help in advance! - Anne	[reply]
Re^3: How to copy files with Chinese names and special characters in Suse Linux? by moritz (Cardinal) on Jun 20, 2011 at 09:07 UTC
Do the files and directories actually exist on your system? Try removing the `use utf8;`, since path names are byte strings on Linux and Unix systems. Perl 6 - second systems done right	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: How to copy files with Chinese names and special characters in Suse Linux? by Anonymous Monk on Jun 20, 2011 at 09:30 UTC
Re^5: How to copy files with Chinese names and special characters in Suse Linux? by anne3294 (Initiate) on Jul 19, 2011 at 01:23 UTC
Re^4: How to copy files with Chinese names and special characters in Suse Linux? by anne3294 (Initiate) on Jul 15, 2011 at 09:55 UTC