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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Starting editor from within perl script
Message-ID: <9634@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 24 Sep 90 18:49:27 GMT
References: <1990Sep21.190641.9221@cs.rochester.edu> <1990Sep22.144126.21099@NCoast.ORG>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1990Sep22.144126.21099@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/KT) writes:
: 	system '/usr/ucb/vi', "/tmp/postnews$$";
: 
: (Splitting it up like that means that the overhead of a shell is unnecessary,
: but you *must* use a full pathname for the editor.  Use a single string if you
: can't guarantee the existence of a full pathname.)

Not so, unless your execvp(3) is broken.  Just tried

	system 'vi', '/tmp/foo';

and it worked fine.  Incidentally,

	system "vi /tmp/postnews$$"

doesn't invoke the shell either, since there are no shell metacharacters
after double quote interpretation.

Larry