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Re: quoting and parentheses in ExecResult?
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Adrian Phillips |
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Re: quoting and parentheses in ExecResult? |
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Mon, 15 Aug 2005 07:27:59 +0200 |
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>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Wray <stevew@catalyst.net.nz> writes:
Steve> In trying to use ExecResult to do some manipulation of
Steve> lists, I found some interesting and unexpected results.
Steve> The variable in this example:
Steve> someresult = ( ExecResult(/bin/sh "/bin/echo baz|/bin/sed
Steve> -e \"s/^\(.*\)$/&.conf/g\"") )
Steve> is set to:
Steve> <$/&.conf/g\"")>
Steve> Thats delimited with the angle brackets for clarity.
Steve> I've tried various combinations of quoting and
Steve> backslash-escaping here, but its not working.
Ah, quoting hell. When I start to backslash my quotes like this I
normally switch to perl and use q{} and qq{}.
Sincerely,
Adrian
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Re: quoting and parentheses in ExecResult?,
Adrian Phillips <=
Re: quoting and parentheses in ExecResult?, Mark Burgess, 2005/08/15