Re: [PLUG] Perl backticks/system question

[Michael Greb <mgreb@linode.com>]

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lists@linuxnotes.net wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a bash script that I need to run from within a Perl script and
> capture the output.  My script works fine until it hits a parentheses in
> an argument and then I get:
> 
>     sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> 
> I understand that if there are arguments in backticks the command is sent
> to the shell for interpretation, but if I run the command outside of my
> Perl script it works fine so I am not sure where I am getting the error
> from.  I have used quotemeta() to escape all the special characters.

Can you provide some samples?  I haven't used quotemeta before but
according to it's docs it doesn't look like what you want:

[michael@orion(~)] perldoc -f quotemeta
       quotemeta EXPR
       quotemeta
               Returns the value of EXPR with all non-"word" characters
               backslashed.  (That is, all characters not matching
               "/[A-Za-z_0-9]/" will be preceded by a backslash in the
               returned string, regardless of any locale settings.)
               This is the internal function implementing the "\Q"
               escape in double-quoted strings.

               If EXPR is omitted, uses $_.
- --
Michael Greb
Linode.com, LLC
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