The following works on FreeBSD:

my $fn = "file name";
say qqx { ls -l "$fn" };

Not sure why this would be any different on Windows.

On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 4:01 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users <
perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Windows 7
>
> In the following
>
> @Result = qqx { C:/Windows/System32/fsutil.exe usn readdata
> \"$FileName\" }.lines;
>
>
> $FileName needs to be in quotes as it can have
> spaces in it.
>
>
> The following did not work:
>
> \"$FileName\"
> "$FileName\
> $FileName
>
> What am I doing wrong, this time?
>
> Many thanks,
> -T
>
>
>
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> They malfunction when you open windows
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