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Untainting might work though; if the filename matches, say, q/^[A-Za-z0-9]+\.tfm$/, it's probably safe to pass it through any shell. But I've never liked that approach, and "probably" is a dangerous word.

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Re^3: Safely capturing the output of an external program
by LanX (Saint) on Mar 09, 2020 at 10:51 UTC
    > Untainting might work though;

    In this case I'd additionally surround arguments with 'singlequotes' .

    Your untainting demo is explicitly forbidding quotes, in other cases escape them.

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