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 -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>