On 8 Jun 2005, at 13:22, Kevin O'Riordan wrote:
>>> As Niall pointed out, you could probably join the arguments together
>>> as a single string before calling system() with that single argument.
>>> Then the shell would get to parse the line ...
>>> As the man page you quoted points out, the shell is only involved when
>> the command line for system contains shell metacharacters. Martin's
>> didn't so his perl program won't use the shell.
>> According to the bash manpage, an unquoted space character itself is a
> shell metacharacter. A little testing shows that you're right though
> --
> the shell is not called when the example arguments are joined together.
> I guess perl has it's own idea of what shell metacharacters are?
I guess an unquoted space character itself is a shell metacharacter
only in so far as it acts as a separator. perl doesn't worry about
that, because if a system command line has no OTHER shell
metacharacters, perl splits the command line on whitespace, and calls
execvp directly with the results of that split.
Niall
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