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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