Re: [PLUG] Perl backticks/system question

["Paul W. Roach III" <paul@isaroach.com>]

Often this can take many escapes to make it work.  I've seen the need to do things like:

 

\\\\(blah\\\\).

 

It sounds weak, but try adding \'s until you stop getting the error :)

 

It's really wacky, but I've seen perl scripts calling ssh via the shell on pipes and running remote commands -- you have to escape things like 6 times -- each intermediate shell strips off half of the \ chars.

 

-P

On Nov 19, 2007 2:31 PM, gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net> wrote:

At 2007-11-19 11:08 -0500, lists@linuxnotes.net < lists@linuxnotes.net> wrote:
> I have a bash script that I need to run from within a Perl script and
> capture the output.  My script works fine until it hits a parentheses in
> an argument and then I get:
>
>     sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('

It'd help to see the code, but I think that you need to escape the
parens.

(Remember characters that are special for Perl will be processed and
eaten within double-quotes and backticks when not escaped, but never
touched within single-quotes.)

--
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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