filename with question mark

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

Hi,

I am using File::Find function. I'm using Perl (v5.12.3) running on Mac OS X Lion (10.7.5). I am opening each file that is found and doing an MD5 digest. I am referencing each file using $File::Find::name. When it encounters a file with a trailing question mark, I get an error that the file is not found and the script errors out:

': No such file or directory at ./file_collector.pl line 166.D/Users/work/Documents/Icon

Actual file is: /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/work/Documents/Icon?

When I try to list it from the shell, tab complete displays it as $ ls -lh /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Users/work/Documents/Icon^M
-rw-r--r--@ 1 myuser staff 0B Mar 14 2008 /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/work/Documents/Icon?

I cannot find anyway to successfully handle this situation. Can anyone offer some suggestions?

Thanks and regards, Brian

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Re: filename with question mark by kcott (Archbishop) on Oct 03, 2012 at 17:52 UTC
G'day Brian, Welcome to the monastery. I also have Mac OS X Lion (10.7.5); I'm running Perl v5.14.2. File::Find and `$File::Find::name` work for me: `$ ls -l abc? -rw-r--r-- 1 ken staff 0 4 Oct 03:13 abc? $ perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -E ' use File::Find; sub wanted { /\?$/ && say $File::Find::name } find(\&wanted, q{.}); ' ./abc?` [download] Filename completion also works. If I type `ls -l abc<TAB><RETURN>`, I get: `$ ls -l abc\? -rw-r--r-- 1 ken staff 0 4 Oct 03:42 abc?` [download] Please post enough of `file_collector.pl` to reproduce your problem. -- Ken	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: filename with question mark by bdugay (Novice) on Oct 03, 2012 at 21:37 UTC
Hi Ken, thanks for testing. The last character of your file appears to be different than mine. I don't think providing my code at this point is relevant. Going by Anonymous' comment, I'll investigate how to handle file with what appears to be a ^M (\r) at the end of a filename. -Brian	[reply]
Re^3: filename with question mark by Anonymous Monk on Oct 04, 2012 at 05:58 UTC
I'll investigate how to handle file with what appears to be a ^M (\r) at the end of a filename. -Brian Well, it really shouldn't need special handling, other than making sure when you warn/die... the filename is escaped, because \r among other chars doesn't show up well in console :)( Basic debugging checklist ) open should just open the file, so first thing to try is feeding it proper Dumpered filename -- if that works, you know what to work on next, which is how the filename gets to your program, if its readdir, it should work, if its @ARGV or something else, you might need to decode utf8 ... see utf8, how to unicode filenames?, how to make a filename in unicode characters	[reply]
Re: filename with question mark by Anonymous Monk on Oct 03, 2012 at 17:00 UTC
and doing an MD5 digest. How, by shelling out to md5sum? show code? use Data::Dump 'pp' to format filenames Use String::ShellQuote to quote it? The filename appears to be "Icon\r" ( ^M means \r ) Try `perl -le " print -s qq[....Icon\r]`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: filename with question mark by bdugay (Novice) on Oct 03, 2012 at 21:34 UTC
Hi Anonymous, I'm using Digest::MD5, but that is irrelevant because the problem occurs while trying to open file, prior to any processing. You make a good point about the last character of the file. I think that is where the problem lies. String::ShellQuote looks interesting, I'll investigate that. -Brian	[reply]