How to avoid escaping by accident in PERL using system()?
- by Brian
I want to run some commands using the system() command, I do this way:
execute_command_error("trash-put '/home/$filename'");
Where execute_command_error will report if there was an error with whatever system command it ran. I know I could just unlink the file using Perl commands, but I want to delete stuff using trash-put as it's a type of recycling program.
My problem is that $filename will sometimes have apostrophes, quotes, and other weird characters in it that mess up the system command or Perl itself.
