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in reply to Shell characters coming back to bite me.

open RES, "-|", "ls -lde $_";

You have to pass the arguments separately: 

open RES, '-|', 'ls', '-lde', $_
    or die "Cannot launch ls: $!";

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Re^2: Shell characters coming back to bite me.
by mull (Monk) on Mar 20, 2012 at 14:56 UTC
    Ok thanks a lot, that was exactly what I needed!
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