Re: Creative and *routine* use of so-called "magic" ARGV (was [perl #2783] Security of ARGV using 2-argument open)

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc> wrote:
> Specifically, \Q...\E will prefix certain characters with '\', and this will
> make it impossible to represent file names with the same special characters
> (the theoretical filenames with '|', '<' or '>') but that are not escaped in
> the file name.

phooey.

Prefixing < takes care of opening and reading files with pipes and so
on in them, but leading/trailing space seems impossible to represent
with a 2-arg open.


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