Preparing a Mac pathname for shell execution from Perl

Question

I'm coding in Perl. @pathnames is an array of absolute Mac pathnames; as such, they may contain blanks. I want to append all of these pathnames to the name of a shell script, and have the shell execute it.
For example, suppose
@pathnames = ("/Shared/John Doe/able.txt", "/Shared/John Doe/baker.txt");
and suppose the script is 'fubar'. I want the shell to receive:
fubar /Shared/John Doe/able.txt /Shared/John Doe/baker.txt
Although I suppose it would be just as good to have:
fubar '/Shared/John Doe/able.txt' '/Shared/John Doe/baker.txt'
What steps are necessary, in Perl, to accomplish this? I expect the final step would look something like:
qx($myCompleteFubarCommand);
I've messed around with quotemeta, Q, single quotes, double quotes, etc. till I must go mad.
Anybody?
Thanks!
Chap

Answer 1

You could try to substitute the blanks with "\blank", the first thing which came to my mind is this
#!/usr/bin/env perl
$MYPATH="/Shared/John Doe/my important docs/whatever.txt";
$MYPATH=~s/ /\ /g;
print $MYPATH;
Remove the underscores "_" before using the code, I had to include them to stop the editor from messing around with the code.
Erik
Message was edited by: Erik Keller (Editor messed up the code)