G'day haukex,

"Just a small nitpick: on Windows it is almost impossible to avoid the shell."

I checked out that module's documentation and code not so long; I've just checked again. Both are still very clear that capturex() does not invoke the shell. Here's a selection of extracts (non-exhaustive):

From SYNOPSIS: 

# As above, but NEVER invokes the shell.
my $output = capturex("some_command", @args);

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From source, starting at Line 361 (note the "NO_SHELL"): 

# capturex() is just like backticks/qx, but never invokes the shell.
 
sub capturex {
...
        if (WINDOWS) {
            return _win32_capture(NO_SHELL, $valid_returns, $command, 
+@args);
        }

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Are you possibly confusing capturex() with capture()? Same source, starting at Line 220 (note the "USE_SHELL"): 

# capture is our way of running a process with backticks/qx semantics
 
sub capture {
...
        if (WINDOWS) {
            # USE_SHELL really means "You may use the shell if you nee
+d it."
            return _win32_capture(USE_SHELL, $valid_returns, $command)
+;
        }

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If not a case of confusion, do you think the documentation, code, or something else, is wrong?

All links and extracts are from the IPC-System-Simple-1.30 distribution (released "Mar 24, 2020").

— Ken

In reply to Re^3: use of Backticks to catch console output by kcott
in thread use of Backticks to catch console output by Takamoto

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