1CPAN::HandleConfig(3) User Contributed Perl DocumentationCPAN::HandleConfig(3)
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NAME

6       CPAN::HandleConfig - internal configuration handling for CPAN.pm
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8   "CLASS->safe_quote ITEM"
9       Quotes an item to become safe against spaces in shell interpolation. An
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15       This happens to avoid shell interpolation problems when whitespace is
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18       This method uses "commands_quote" to determine the correct quote. If
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21       if it starts and ends with the same quote character: leave it as it is
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23       if it contains no whitespace: leave it as it is
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LICENSE

32       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
33       under the same terms as Perl itself.
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37perl v5.30.1                      2020-01-31             CPAN::HandleConfig(3)