I thought Perl would take care of that for me.

On Linux:

~$ perl -E 'system $^X, "-E", "say for \@ARGV", 1, qq(\x27), 2'
1
'
2
~$ perl -E 'system $^X, "-E", "say for \@ARGV", 1, qq(\x22), 2'
1
"
2

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But on Windows (no test for single quote, because irrelevant and works OK):

>perl -E "system $^X, '-E', 'say for @ARGV', 1, qq(\x22), 2"
1
 2

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So I have to do this:

>perl -E "system $^X, '-E', 'say for @ARGV', 1, qq(\\\x22), 2"
1
"
2

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What was the space character? Just wondering if this behaviour was some oversight on porters' side? Of course not much trouble to escape all '"' 's myself, once I know about it. Are there other known similar surprises to watch out for?

In reply to Having to manually escape quote character in args to "system"? by vr

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