[vox-tech] quoting question in perl

[Harry Souders]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 05:06:29PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> 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"?

There are probably better ways, but this might work:

system("rm -- $filename");