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Re: [PLUG] Perl backticks/system question
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> On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 02:09:10PM -0500, Jon Nelson wrote:
>> > No, that's how I understood the problem. Do you also get a syntax
>> > error when you run
>> >
>> > $ echo a(b)c
>> >
>> > Anyway, I'm out of guesses.
>> >
>>
>> Yep I get the error.
>
> But you're saying you *don't* get an error when you try to execute
> some other command that has parens in it? Could you post the exact
> command you're trying to execute, before it's been run through
> quotemeta?
Ok. The Clue Train just pulled into Station Quincy. I had two arguments
and I only used quotemeta() on the first. The second had parens that
needed escaping as well.
Sorry for being a dope. ;)
jon
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