Rich Morin writes:
> Let's say that I want to use a command (e.g., md5) on a file. No
> problem; just use:
>
> system("md5 $file");
>
> Except that the file name could contain all manner of white space
> characters, shell wildcard characters, etc. Is there a module that
> deals with this sort of thing (e.g., wrapping each argument in the
> appropriate kinds of quoting)?
As another correspondent wrote, the correct solution is to use the
list form of system(). If you need backticks and have 5.8, do this:
open F, "-|", "md5", $file or die;
while (<F>) { ... }
The Perl Cookbook has code for safe backticks that works with 5.004
and friends.
Nat
