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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting perl script chokes on dirs with spaces Post 302298137 by audiophile on Monday 16th of March 2009 07:45:04 PM
Old 03-16-2009
Yeah, single or double quotes... I'm sure it's something in the perl code
 

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