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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next prev parent 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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