Re^3: Calling Windows Batch from Perl, double-quote appearing out of nowhere (insanity)

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Just for y'all's information, I don't know the answer to that. It would be interesting to look into why only system(1,...) wraps things in cmd /c "..." in a way that triggers this bug. To figure that out, I'd read the code that I linked to above. I did scan some parts of it earlier but not looking for that quirk (I initially missed your point that the "1," was required).

But why not just include a trailing space and then none of that will likely matter? (And include a comment noting that the trailing space is required to work around a bug in: cmd /c "cmd /c ...".)

- tye

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Re^4: Calling Windows Batch from Perl, double-quote appearing out of nowhere (insanity) by rovf (Priest) on Nov 09, 2012 at 15:45 UTC
But why not just include a trailing space and then none of that will likely matter? Agreed! This indeed looks like the most sensible solution. (well, maybe the most sensible one would be to avoid Windows alltogether ;-) -- Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Calling Windows Batch from Perl, double-quote appearing out of nowhere (insanity) by Anonymous Monk on Nov 09, 2012 at 15:52 UTC
using one of the shellquoting modules I linked usually does the trick for me (keeps perl from fudging up the quoting)	[reply]

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