[tex-live] shell_escape extension patch

[Zdenek Wagner]

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Akira Kakuto wrote:

> ...
>
> BTW, on windows' cmd.exe,
> perl -e "print sqrt(4)"
> is ok, but
> perl -e 'print sqrt(4)'
> is ng.
> Therefore
> \input "|perl -e 'print sqrt(4)'"
> fails, while
> \input "|perl --version"
> works.
>
> This may be a limitation of cmd.exe.
> Are there any solutions?
>
It's the same in OS/2. I cannot use such one-line scripts in awk/perl/sed
if they contain a quoted string. I could use them if I start some
unix-like shell inside cmd.exe.

> Thanks a lot,
> Akira
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