> 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)?
>
> -r
>
> P.S. This isn't strictly an OSX issue, but I see far more weird
> characters in OSX file names than I ever saw in *BSD, etc.
Yeah, this probably has some holes...
# to be safe, quote shell metacharacters
$command =~ s/([;<>\*\|`&\$!#\(\)\[\]\{\}:'"])/\\$1/g;
Parse($command);
--Jerry
