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

On 2/24/06, Rogan Dawes [off-list ref] wrote:

Alex Riesen wrote:

quoted

Randal L. Schwartz, Thu, Feb 23, 2006 21:41:44 +0100:

quoted

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