>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> 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. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! - : 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