>>>>> "Luke" == Luke Bakken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Luke> The simple solution is to be sure that single quotes are around the
Luke> strings passed to the "describe" command:

>> my $results = `$ct describe '$line' | $grep $label`;

And of course fails if you have filenaems that have single quotes.

The *proper* solution is to not involve a shell.  See multi-arg
pipe-open and multi-arg exec.

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