Question

I need to allow users to type in just about anything when they run my perl script as my script is sending all data to another non-custom script at different increments.

In theory, I’m hoping this could happen:

perlscript "this is" -t stuff\n4^./q%

Then, in perlscript, have:

print "Full: $full_command";

which results in:

Full: "this is" -t stuff\n4^./q%

That make any sense? Nothing I’ve tried yet does exactly what I’m looking for with argv or the like.

Thanks for any help,
Tim

Answer 1

The shell does something equivalent to

exec('perlscript', 'this is', '-t', 'stuff'.chr(0x0A).'4&^./q%');

There’s no way perl can produce the original shell command from that. If you want Perl to receive

"this is" -t stuff\n4^./q%

you need to tell the shell that using something like

perlscript '"this is" -t stuff\n4^./q%'

(Well, at least for a Borne shell or derivative.)