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 :) - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html