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

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"Alex" == Alex Riesen [off-list ref] 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{}?

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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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