Re^6: System() in list mode?

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Re^7: System() in list mode? by zentara (Cardinal) on Oct 18, 2011 at 15:15 UTC
You sound like a troll, but just in case you are in earnest `system ('tar', '-zcvf', 'my_tarball.tgz', '/mypath with spaces/dir' );` [download] I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Old Perl Programmer Haiku ................... flash japh	[reply] [d/l]
Re^8: System() in list mode? by 1337John (Initiate) on Oct 18, 2011 at 19:41 UTC
What if your path had an apostrophe (single-quote) in it, in addition to a space, and that path was stored in a variable (i.e. not hard-coded)?	[reply]
Re^9: System() in list mode? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 19, 2011 at 00:58 UTC
You don't have to do anything at all. `system('tar', 'cvzf', 'my_tarball.tgz', $path);` [download] Again, the multi-arg form of system does not invoke the shell, so you can pass all the spaces, quotes and dollars signs you want and no shell will touch them.	[reply] [d/l]