This caused me to lose about thirty minutes of my precious “not working, not sleeping” time (currently at about two hours a day.) <\/p>\n
I was trying to run some file test operations on some files in OSX using Perl (one of the newer ones, 5.10 maybe) that have spaces in their names. In general, I absolute hate how processing files with spaces is so difficult. One thing I like to do is change the IFS (internal file separator) in bash while doing things with files. This blog post<\/a> shows a really nice example of doing that.<\/p>\n Anyway, I was doing something basically like:<\/p>\n if (-e $file && -f $file) { … }<\/p>\n for $file where $file was something like “~\/tmpLibrary\/covers\/Sanderson, Brandon – Mistborn.jpg”. It was failing all the time. I was also getting mystifying “failed trying to stat file with newline in it” error messages when I knew the file name had no newlines. I still don’t know what that was about. Unfortunately, for files that I knew existed and were regular, the above test was failing.<\/p>\n Why?<\/p>\n After much experimentation, lots of googling (there was nothing on this) I figured it out. And remembered that I knew this was a problem at some point, and must have forgotten. Perl barf on “~\/tmpLibrary\/bar.jpg”. It will work fine with absolute file paths: “\/Users\/devans\/tmpLibrary\/bar.jpg”. Oh. That is strange, but I guess I can understand that. There isn’t any real reason that Perl should expand the path with the user home location. I wouldn’t be surprised if it, and would be (was!) surprised when it didn’t, but whatever.<\/p>\n So, remember that kids. Don’t count on home directory expansion. Not that I could find anything about that (or spaces in filenames, which work just fine) for perl file operator tests, but there you go.<\/p>\n And I spend my free time doing stuff like this for fun. I am a sad, sad man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This caused me to lose about thirty minutes of my precious “not working, not sleeping” time (currently at about two hours a day.) I was trying to run some file test operations on some files in OSX using Perl (one of the newer ones, 5.10 maybe) that have spaces in their names. In general, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}