Re: ExecResult question

[John Sechrest]

What do you do when there are 28 days in a month?




Tod Oace <tod.r.oace@intel.com> writes:

 % 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?
 % >
 % > -- 
 % >
 % > Chip Seraphine
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 % > 312-264-2048
 % > chip@trdlnk.com
 % >
 % >
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 % Tod Oace, Intel Corporation <tod@intel.com>
 % 
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