[vox-tech] quoting question in perl

Peter Jay Salzman vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Thu, 20 Dec 2001 17:06:29 -0800


if you have:

system("rm $filename");

and $filename = "a file", you get an error because you're trying to delete
two files, "a" and "file".

what's the proper way of quoting $filename so that the shell sees the file
"a file" and not the two non-existant files "a" and "file"?

pete

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