Re: ExecResult question

[Tod Oace]

Heh....this is what I ended up doing a while ago:

days = (  
01:02:03:04:05:06:07:08:09:10:11:12:13:14:15:16:17:18:19:20:21:22:23: 
24:25:26:27:28:29:30:31 )

Yes it's ugly and tedious, but it's more light-weight than forking and  
running something else.
-Tod


On Aug 30, 2004, at 11:24, Chip Seraphine wrote:

> I'm trying to get a list of days-of-the-month to iterate over (01 thru  
> 31).
> I'm doing this:
>
> 	days=				( ExecResult(/usr/bin/perl -e 'map{printf  
> "day%02d\n",$_}(1..31)') )
>
> The contents of ExecResult(), when pasted into a shell, work fine  
> (prints a
> newline-delimited list of lines like "day01\nday02\n...").  However,  
> cfengine
> seems to result in $(days) equalling "')" (less the doublequotes).    
> I've
> been futzing about with the quote marks and backslashing various  
> characters
> but haven't gotten anything to work.  Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
>
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