"Dan Sugalski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > > > Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * there is no opcode to use it, e.g.: > > > > > Pio = backtick Scmd, Pargv, Iflags > > > > I've now integrated that into the C<open> opcode: > > > > .local pmc pipe > > pipe = open "/bin/cat -n", "|-" > > > > # or > > > > pipe = open "/bin/ls -l", "-|" > > > > There is still no good way to pass arguments to commands - currently the > > given command gets split at spaces, which is of course broken with > > respect to quoted args. > > Then lets add: > > backtick Pfilehandle, Scommand, Imode > backtick Pfilehandle, Scommand, Imode, Pargarray > > to the ops list. Might there be a better name for this op? I know backtick isn't just Perl-ish; it's used in UNIX shells too. But for someone from a non-UNIX, non-Perl background, backtick may not mean a lot. That said, I'm not sure I can think of a metter name.
Jonathan
