From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:14:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Convert open("-|") to qx{} calls
Message-ID: <20060223211403.GB5827@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <86lkw1g647.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>

Randal L. Schwartz, Thu, Feb 23, 2006 21:41:44 +0100:
> Johannes> Now that our local Perl guru joined the discussion, may I ask what
> Johannes> is, and what is not quoted when put inside qx{}?
> 
> Nothing is quoted.  Your string acts as if it was XXX in:
> 
>         sh -c 'XXX'
> 

Not so for ActiveState. It'll just run the first non-whitespace word
passing the rest of the line in its command-line.
It's not even worse then to pass it all to cmd/command :)