From: Randal L. Schwartz Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:15:37 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Convert open("-|") to qx{} calls Message-ID: <863bi9g4jq.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> In-Reply-To: <20060223211403.GB5827@steel.home> >>>>> "Alex" == Alex Riesen 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{}? >> >> 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. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!