[vox-tech] quoting question in perl

[Henry House]

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On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 05:06:29PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> if you have:
>=20
> system("rm $filename");
>=20
> and $filename =3D "a file", you get an error because you're trying to del=
ete
> two files, "a" and "file".
>=20
> 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"?

Don't use system() with one arg. Read perlsec(1). It is good :-).

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