Henry, Mark Patrick wrote:
> Hi All,

Hello,

> When embedding double-quotes (") in an already double-quoted (for
> interpolation) backticked command, one back-quotes them.. (\") and all
> is well. (e.g. passing a quoted sub-command to find -exec..)
> 
> What though, if one is dealing with double quotes 3 levels deep?  I've
> tried various combinations of double back-quoting (\\") but all that
> really achieves is quoting the backslash..
> There's 'qx'.. but I haven't hit the nail on the head yet..
> 
> Any silver bullet on this one?

If you want to prevent perl from interpolating in qx use single quotes:

qx'find -exec...';



John
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