Is this available in a standard module? If not, I think it should be. The situation seems to comes up enough. I'd like to deprecate all calls to exec which invoke an intermediate shell and replace them with safer alternatives.

Update: Banning all use of the single-argument forms of exec, system, etc. is probably too draconian. The real problem occurs when a variable is interpolated in that single argument, e.g. my $output = `command $arg`. Perhaps this is something that Perl::Critic can look for and advise that a safer way should be sought to perform the operation.

In reply to Re^3: CLASSPATH problem when using backticks by pc88mxer
in thread CLASSPATH problem when using backticks by maithree

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