Space in Folder Name

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

I have a scenario where, I have generated a perl script and I what to excute from a parent folder whose child has a space in its name.

Ex:

C:\Satya\903\Windows>Dir

Directory of C:\Satya\903\Windows

06/12/2011 15:59 <DIR> .

06/12/2011 15:59 <DIR> ..

06/12/2011 15:20 <DIR> fish food

0 File(s) 0 bytes

3 Dir(s) 433,473,777,664 bytes free

Now I have an Excutable(Genrated from perl) in folder "fish food" and I want to execute it from this location. some think like below

C:\Satya\903\Windows>"fish food\opx_CMB_GEN_903.exe"

Can't open fish: No such file or directory at -e line 1.

Can't open food\opx_CMB_GEN_903.exe: No such file or directory at -e line 1.

Can't open fish: No such file or directory at -e line 1.

Can't open food\opx_CMB_GEN_903.exe: No such file or directory at -e line 1.

Can't open fish: No such file or directory at -e line 1.

Can't open food\opx_CMB_GEN_903.pl: No such file or directory at -e line 1.

not found

I getting above error, Please help me how to deal with this.

Comment on Space in Folder Name

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Re: Space in Folder Name by marto (Cardinal) on Dec 06, 2011 at 16:11 UTC
Welcome to the monastery. Please read and understand How do I post a question effectively? and the post formatting guidelines which are displayed when you post. Please show us your code (or a cut down/minimal example) which produces this error and describe how you created the executable.	[reply]
Re: Space in Folder Name by JavaFan (Canon) on Dec 06, 2011 at 21:57 UTC
This seems to be a Windows issue to me. Just the fact that the program you want to execute was created by a Perl program, doesn't make your problem a Perl problem. If you follow your logic, you ought to say "Perl is written in C, so I should ask on a C forum".	[reply]
Re: Space in Folder Name by keszler (Priest) on Dec 06, 2011 at 17:09 UTC
`at -e line 1` doesn't look to me like a Windows message. Is the generated-from-perl executable trying to do something with `$0`?	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Space in Folder Name by TJPride (Pilgrim) on Dec 06, 2011 at 16:28 UTC
If you're quoting it, I don't know why it wouldn't run. Have you tried run "fish food\opx_CMB_GEN_903.exe" or maybe setting up a .bat that does: `cd "fish food" opx_CMB_GEN_903.exe` [download] Sadly, I'm on my Mac at the moment, so I can't test scenarios.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Space in Folder Name by satyamunni (Initiate) on Dec 06, 2011 at 17:13 UTC
Hi, Thank you very much for the reply, Sadly I cam to know that, we have our own script to create an executable script from perl script. Probably I need to investigate that code. Thank you, Satya	[reply]