perl: switch from backticks to qx()

To make it easier to find external command invocation in the source.

Also drop backticks from a comment.

To find external command invocations in Perl code use:
```sh
git grep -E "((exec|qx|open2|open3|system)\(|open\(.+-\|)" $(<perlfiles>)
```

Refs:
https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/qx
https://perldoc.perl.org/perlop#Simpler-Quote-Like-Operators

Closes #21994
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Viktor Szakats 2026-05-19 17:41:07 +02:00
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@ -1226,12 +1226,12 @@ sub scanfile {
@copyright = sort {$$b{year} cmp $$a{year}} @copyright;
# if the file is modified, assume commit year this year
if(`git status -s -- "$file"` =~ /^ [MARCU]/) {
if(qx(git status -s -- "$file") =~ /^ [MARCU]/) {
$commityear = (localtime(time))[5] + 1900;
}
else {
# min-parents=1 to ignore wrong initial commit in truncated repos
my $grl = `git rev-list --max-count=1 --min-parents=1 --timestamp HEAD -- "$file"`;
my $grl = qx(git rev-list --max-count=1 --min-parents=1 --timestamp HEAD -- "$file");
if($grl) {
chomp $grl;
$commityear = (localtime((split(/ /, $grl))[0]))[5] + 1900;