multiline commands in qx//

multiline commands in qx//

On Mon, 21 Jul 1997 15:50:03 EDT, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
>In article <199707202332.TAA05144@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
>Gurusamy Sarathy  <gsar@engin.umich.edu> wrote:
>> +the system's command shell for parsing (this is C</bin/sh -c> on Unix
>> +platforms, but varies on other platforms).  If there are none, the
>> +argument is split into words and passed directly to execvp(), which is
>> +more efficient.  Note: exec() and system() do not flush your output
>> +buffer, so you may need to set C<$|> to avoid lost output.  Examples:
>
>"If there are none" should be changed to "if command contains no shell
>metacharacters".

Here's a newer version of that doc patch.  Ignore the old one.

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