Re: [PATCH] Convert open("-|") to qx{} calls
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- Rogan Dawes <discard@dawes.za.net>
- Date
- Feb 24, 2006, 05:19 UTC
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Alex Riesen wrote:
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> 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 :)
> Not true.
> type t #!perl -w
print qx{echo joe & echo joe}."\n";
> perl t
joe
joe>
If the shell was not interpreting the arguments, you would expect to get 1 line with:
joe & echo joe
on it.
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Rogan