Re: Getting $(allclasses) into a shellcommand

[Chip Seraphine]

On Friday 16 July 2004 13:23, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, tzz@lifelogs.com wrote:
> 
> >> Anyway, I am having issues passing these large lists of classes into the 
> >> perl script that does the actual RPM installation.  [snip]
> > Why not put it all in a text file with editfiles:, then parse that
> > with Perl?

That was my fallback position, but that doesn't work either.  I get the same 
truncation if I try to do this:

AppendIfNoSuchLine "$(allclasses)"

...so presumably editfiles and shellcommands use the same size buffer.

> Oh, and of course you don't have to use Perl :)

Blasphemy!  Of *course* it has to be Perl!!!  :-)
 
> Ted

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