Re: [PATCH] Convert open("-|") to qx{} calls
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Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
- Date
- Feb 23, 2006, 21:15 UTC
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>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
Alex> 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{}?
Show 5 quoted lines
>> >> Nothing is quoted. Your string acts as if it was XXX in: >> >> sh -c 'XXX' >>
Alex> Not so for ActiveState. It'll just run the first non-whitespace word Alex> passing the rest of the line in its command-line. Alex> It's not even worse then to pass it all to cmd/command :)
Right. That's why I suggest (in a later message) that safe_qx merely fall back to qx() on Activestate. Can't go much more wrong. :)
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