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undo change#5506; add patch to make blank line warnings optional
[perl5.git] / lib / Shell.pm
index bb44b53..62aa829 100644 (file)
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 package Shell;
+use 5.005_64;
+our($capture_stderr, $VERSION);
 
-use Config;
+$VERSION = '0.2';
 
 sub import {
     my $self = shift;
@@ -20,12 +22,12 @@ sub import {
 AUTOLOAD {
     my $cmd = $AUTOLOAD;
     $cmd =~ s/^.*:://;
-    eval qq {
+    eval <<"*END*";
        sub $AUTOLOAD {
            if (\@_ < 1) {
-               `$cmd`;
+               \$Shell::capture_stderr ? `$cmd 2>&1` : `$cmd`;
            }
-           elsif (\$Config{'archname'} eq 'os2') {
+           elsif ('$^O' eq 'os2') {
                local(\*SAVEOUT, \*READ, \*WRITE);
 
                open SAVEOUT, '>&STDOUT' or die;
@@ -33,8 +35,8 @@ AUTOLOAD {
                open STDOUT, '>&WRITE' or die;
                close WRITE;
 
-               my \$pid = system(1, \$cmd, \@_);
-               die "Can't execute $cmd: \$!\n" if \$pid < 0;
+               my \$pid = system(1, '$cmd', \@_);
+               die "Can't execute $cmd: \$!\\n" if \$pid < 0;
 
                open STDOUT, '>&SAVEOUT' or die;
                close SAVEOUT;
@@ -54,9 +56,34 @@ AUTOLOAD {
                }
            }
            else {
-               open(SUBPROC, "-|")
-                       or exec '$cmd', \@_
-                       or die "Can't exec $cmd: \$!\n";
+               my \$a;
+               my \@arr = \@_;
+               if ('$^O' eq 'MSWin32') {
+                   # XXX this special-casing should not be needed
+                   # if we do quoting right on Windows. :-(
+                   #
+                   # First, escape all quotes.  Cover the case where we
+                   # want to pass along a quote preceded by a backslash
+                   # (i.e., C<"param \\""" end">).
+                   # Ugly, yup?  You know, windoze.
+                   # Enclose in quotes only the parameters that need it:
+                   #   try this: c:\> dir "/w"
+                   #   and this: c:\> dir /w
+                   for (\@arr) {
+                       s/"/\\\\"/g;
+                       s/\\\\\\\\"/\\\\\\\\"""/g;
+                       \$_ = qq["\$_"] if /\\s/;
+                   }
+               }
+               else {
+                   for (\@arr) {
+                       s/(['\\\\])/\\\\\$1/g;
+                       \$_ = "'\$_'";
+                   }
+               }
+               push \@arr, '2>&1' if \$Shell::capture_stderr;
+               open(SUBPROC, join(' ', '$cmd', \@arr, '|'))
+                   or die "Can't exec $cmd: \$!\\n";
                if (wantarray) {
                    my \@ret = <SUBPROC>;
                    close SUBPROC;      # XXX Oughta use a destructor.
@@ -70,7 +97,9 @@ AUTOLOAD {
                }
            }
        }
-    };
+*END*
+
+    die "$@\n" if $@;
     goto &$AUTOLOAD;
 }
 
@@ -119,8 +148,17 @@ usage should be
 Larry
 
 
+If you set $Shell::capture_stderr to 1, the module will attempt to
+capture the STDERR of the process as well.
+
+The module now should work on Win32.
+
+ Jenda
+
 =head1 AUTHOR
 
 Larry Wall
 
+Changes by Jenda@Krynicky.cz and Dave Cottle <d.cottle@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
+
 =cut