From source, ...

You need to trace the source a little further and look into _win32_capture, where you'll see that Win32::ShellQuote gets called no matter what the value of $use_shell is.

Both are still very clear that capturex() does not invoke the shell.

In my experience the documentation of such modules is usually tailored to *NIX. Either that or people eqate using Win32::ShellQuote to "avoiding the shell"*, which isn't quite accurate, and the module does have some edge cases that means it's not the same as execvp on *NIX - like I said, I was being nitpicky :-)

Have a look at Re^2: Having to manually escape quote character in args to "system"? for more details on calling commands on Windows and why argument quoting is such an issue there.

* Update: See my clarification further down in the thread.

In reply to Re^4: use of Backticks to catch console output by haukex
in thread use of Backticks to catch console output by Takamoto

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