> We will have a beautiful DSL so you don’t have to quote arguments as string... If i'm using Perl's Shell.pm (as mentioned elsewhere here by btilly) and wante

> We will have a beautiful DSL so you don’t have to quote arguments as string... If i'm using Perl's Shell.pm (as mentioned elsewhere here by btilly) and wanted to avoid quoting arguments then I could do: use 5.016; use warnings; use Shell (); use PerlX::QuoteOperator ls => { -emulate => 'qq', -with => sub ($) { Shell::ls($_[0]) }, }; use PerlX::QuoteOperator uname => { -emulate => 'qq', -with => sub ($) { Shell::uname($_[0]) }, }; use PerlX::QuoteOperator ip => { -emulate => 'qq', -with => sub ($) { Shell::ip($_[0]) }, }; # and then... ls(); uname(-a); ip(-4 addr); But this seems to be an overkill because I could just use Perl's backticks (http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Quote-Like-Operators http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Quote-Like-Operators)... `ls`; `uname -a`; `ip -4 addr`; And it works with variables... my $x = "/usr/local/"; my $files = `ls -l $x`; and piping... my $perl_files = `ls | grep .pl`; Shell.pm also works with variables & piping but I think that backticks are probably Perl's best DSL for dealing (easily) with shell stuff :)