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in thread Single Quote string with Variable

your post, where the first three examples show the wrong way to do it, is no better.
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Re^6: Single Quote string with Variable
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 15, 2023 at 22:07 UTC

    They're not wrong, just overly complex for the case at hand. Hippo's example, on the other hand, suffers from a code injection bug.

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      They're not wrong

      you can't actually believe that?

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        Absolutely. Building shell commands and capturing the output of child programs aren't just perfectly acceptable tasks, they are common ones. Begone with your trolling.

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