I rename the files that belong to the application. But some of these files belong to third-party utilities, on which I have no control.
Thanks for your help. ________________________________ De: Rene Schickbauer <rene.schickba...@gmail.com> Para: Skriptke <skrip...@yahoo.es> CC: module-authors@perl.org Enviado: mié,24 febrero, 2010 10:44 Asunto: Re: file spaces in MANIFEST Hi! > I have not managed to find documentation on whether it is possible to include > in MANIFEST files with spaces in names. > > Is it possible? Is it another problem? Files with spaces are generally a BAD idea. For example, every time you call an external program, you have quote the arguments. Forget once, you are in big troubles, like this: You have a kernel config file named '/boot/kernel myconfig' that you want to delete through perl. The name is in variable $fname. You can call `rm -f $fname`; right? No! You just tried to delete two files, namely '/boot/kernel' and 'myconfig'. Depending on which operating system, shell and other things, you might or might not have to quote in different styles. So, unless you absolutely HAVE to, do not use files with spaces in them. Please take a look at <http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html> LG Rene
