On Thursday 20 December 2001 05:59 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> begin Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ...
> > Well, the direct answer to your question would be to use:
> >
> > system("rm '$filename'");
> >
> > or something similar so that the shell sees the quoting.
I read somwehre that the single quote is a valid character in an
identifier, so you might need something like
system("rm '${filename}'");
to make it work, but am not sure offhand.
> cool. i didn't know that the shell would see $filename when it's
> enclosed in single forward quotes.
With Perl doing the interpolation, the shell will just see
rm 'a file'
Cheers,
-- Rod
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/
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