Re^2: Passing user input to a shell command

You should not be using qw in the system call

Or, you should be using qw() but you need to fully specify the path to perl. That way you don't have to worry about $file having spaces in it.

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Re^3: Passing user input to a shell command by jdporter (Paladin) on May 20, 2007 at 18:57 UTC
Did you try this? `print "$_\n" for qw "perl /Users/james/perlstuff/macc/macc1 $file";` [download]	[reply] [d/l]


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