Re: [PATCH] Convert open("-|") to qx{} calls
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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
- Date
- Feb 24, 2006, 13:27 UTC
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On 2/24/06, Rogan Dawes <discard@dawes.za.net> wrote:
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> Alex Riesen wrote:
> > 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
>Does not seem to be the case here (and yes, I check build 815 too):
$ perl -v
This is perl, v5.8.6 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread (with 3 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)
Copyright 1987-2004, Larry Wall
Binary build 811 provided by ActiveState Corp. http://www.ActiveState.com ActiveState is a division of Sophos. Built Dec 13 2004 09:52:01 ...
$ perl -e 'print qx{echo joe & echo joe}."\n";' joe & echo joe