C:> perl -TE "say $^V; say qq/Taint mode: ${^TAINT}/; say qx/date/;" v5.38.0 Taint mode: 1 Thu Oct 26 09:43:51 Pacific Daylight Time 2023 C:> perl -TE "say $^V; say qq/Taint mode: ${^TAINT}/; say system(qq/date/);" v5.38.0 Taint mode: 1 Insecure $ENV{PATH} while running with -T switch at -e line 1.