On 2/24/06, Rogan Dawes <discard@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Alex Riesen wrote: > > 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 :) > > > > 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 - : 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