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Re^3: greater efficiency required (ls, glob, or readdir?)by JavaFan (Canon) |
on Aug 27, 2008 at 19:37 UTC ( [id://707275]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Actually, $dir and $_ will only be interpreted by the shell if they contain "funny" characters. If a string passed as argument to qx or one-arg system contains just alphanums, underscores and whitespace, no shell gets involved, perl will call execv directly.
But obviously, if you don't know what $dir contains, you shouldn't use `ls $dir`, and if you aren't in control of the content of the directory you should use `cat $_`. Even if you don't think that this is important in your case, it's better to make the code more maintainable and re-usable for security-aware scenarios. I cannot agree with that, if only for the reasons it's often not mutually possible. More maintable code usually means simpler code, while code that needs to be run in a possible hostile environment tends to be more complex than code that doesn't have to run in such an environment. "More maintable" and "re-usable for security aware scenarios" are most of the time conflicting requirements.
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