Re^2: Safely capturing the output of an external program

Not being in the core is fine. And this, from IPC::System::Simple's documentation,

Better still, you can even use capturex() to run the equivalent of backticks, but without the shell:

is exactly what I wanted to read. Thanks!

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Re^3: Safely capturing the output of an external program by perlancar (Hermit) on Mar 10, 2020 at 06:14 UTC
I'd like to offer another alternative, my IPC::System::Options which exports readpipe() and lets you use the standard backtick operator but with the option of not having to use shell.	[reply]