Re: [PATCH] Convert open("-|") to qx{} calls

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 :)