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Id: 37348
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  Wed Jul 02 18:22:44 2008 CHOCOLATE [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: Wishlist: escape (or quote or normalize) filenames
Hi. It would be nice if one could take a raw filename e.g. "foo's bar.baz" and have it escaped (or quoted or normalized) so that it can be accessed without tears on various platforms e.g. on Unix "foo\'s\ bar.baz". i.e. a kind of platform-specific quotemeta() for filenames. See http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37347 chocolateboy.
  Thu Aug 11 09:20:35 2011 dolmen [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Le 2008-07-03 00:22:44, CHOCOLATE a écrit : Show quoted text
> Hi. > > It would be nice if one could take a raw filename e.g. "foo's bar.baz" > and have it escaped (or quoted or normalized) so that it can be accessed > without tears on various platforms e.g. on Unix "foo\'s\ bar.baz". > > i.e. a kind of platform-specific quotemeta() for filenames.
Your use case seems to be for passing the filename as an argument when launching an external command using a shell. String::ShellQuote exists, but unfortunately it is not cross-platform. https://metacpan.org/module/String::ShellQuote -- Olivier Mengué - http://search.cpan.org/~dolmen/ http://github.com/dolmen/
  Thu Aug 11 09:20:38 2011 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'