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From: Reed White <alta AT alta-research DOT com>
Organization: Alta Research
To: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp AT familiehaase DOT de>
Subject: Re: 1.5.5 and perl 5.8.2-5: bug with perl's system()- FALSE ALARM
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 18:53:07 -0800
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Sorry, but this was a false alarm.
After more experiments, I discovered that the problem was due to a 
missing back-slash before an at-sign.  (My mistake.)

... Reed


On Saturday 22 November 2003 06:06, you wrote:
> Hello Reed,
>
> RW> Versions: crgwin dll 1.5.5 and perl 5.8.2-5
>
> RW> When executing system() commands in perl, the system fails to
> handle RW> escaped quotes properly.  For example, the following is
> not parsed RW> properly:
>
> RW>      system("rsync ... --rsh=\"ssh -l blah\" ... ")
>
> RW> ... Reed
>
>
> Does it work when setting:
> $var = "rsync ... --rsh=\"ssh -l blah\" ...";
> system($var); # or system("$var")
>
> ?

-- 
Reed White  -  ALTA RESEARCH  -  877-360-2582
alta AT alta-research DOT com  -  www.alta-research.com


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