Re: Security problems with: system "printf \"$_\" | pbcopy"

On Apr 14, 2005, at 1:04 PM, Lawrence Furnival wrote:

> Thanks - I see it in the docs.
>
> I don't see the need to avoid using the shell as I am running this in 
> the shell and the are no non alphanumberic content (I stripped  them 
> out with regex) and this is not a web app.

Still, being very careful with system(STRING) is a good habit to get 
into.  Personally I try to never use it, system(LIST) is much safer and 
you don't have to worry about quoting weirdnesses, so it's more 
cross-platform.

 -Ken