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From: merlyn@stonehenge•com (Randal L. Schwartz)
To: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail•com>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx•de>,
	Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox•net>,
	git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Convert open("-|") to qx{} calls
Date: 23 Feb 2006 13:15:37 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <863bi9g4jq.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060223211403.GB5827@steel.home>

>>>>> "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{}?
>> 
>> 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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  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-23 21:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-23 14:33 [PATCH] Convert open("-|") to qx{} calls Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-23 15:38 ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-23 16:07   ` Randal L. Schwartz
2006-02-23 17:53     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-23 18:42       ` Randal L. Schwartz
2006-02-23 19:41         ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-23 20:41           ` Randal L. Schwartz
2006-02-23 21:14             ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-23 21:15               ` Randal L. Schwartz [this message]
2006-02-24  5:19               ` Rogan Dawes
2006-02-24 13:27                 ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-24 14:29                   ` Rogan Dawes
2006-02-24 15:25                     ` Alex Riesen

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