On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 4:03 PM Felipe Gasper <felipe@felipegasper.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Whereas Perl’s `system` and `exec` built-ins can accept a list of > parameters to pass to the called program, `readpipe` only takes a single > argument. Thus, if you want to pass parameters to the called program, you > have to apply shell quoting, which is error-prone. > > This is confusing and strange, I think. It would seem ideal for > `readpipe` to work as `system` and `exec` do. > > Thoughts? > I agree it is weird and restrictive, and this is the reason I wrote https://metacpan.org/pod/IPC::ReadpipeX. -DanThread Previous