10-22-2007
There are several problems:
1) "test" is a unix commando. Better do not use "test" as the name for a variable, command, etc. Name it "foo" "bar" or anything else, it will spare you some strange effects.
2) You are working in the Korn shell and should NOT use "echo" as a means to produce output. Use the built-in "print". Your usage of "echo" will not cause any immediate problems, but is not good programming style.
3) There is a typo in one of your declarations:
testfile= $test/test.log
The space-char after the "=" is wrong. Perhaps this is leading to subsequent problems when expandig the variable. Find it out by issuing "print - \"$testfile\"" immediately before the rm-statement. It will give you the value of $testfile surrounded by double quotes, so will be able to see if there are nonprinting characters.
And, just because it fits in here: if you issue some command with variables as arguments make sure the variables get expanded the way you intended them to be expanded:
print $foo
looks innocent enough. As long as $foo expand to something like "bar" everything is fine, but how about this:
foo="-u3 bar"
print $foo
now the shell expands this to "print -u3 bar" and is not placing output to the screen as before but to I/O-channel 3 which probably points to nowhere. This is why i use always "print -" instead of "print", because the hyphen tells the print-command that everything following it is to be printed and not an option. For other commands there are similar security-devices on could (and should) employ.
bakunin
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text::glob
Text::Glob(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Text::Glob(3)
NAME
Text::Glob - match globbing patterns against text
SYNOPSIS
use Text::Glob qw( match_glob glob_to_regex );
print "matched
" if match_glob( "foo.*", "foo.bar" );
# prints foo.bar and foo.baz
my $regex = glob_to_regex( "foo.*" );
for ( qw( foo.bar foo.baz foo bar ) ) {
print "matched: $_
" if /$regex/;
}
DESCRIPTION
Text::Glob implements glob(3) style matching that can be used to match against text, rather than fetching names from a filesystem. If you
want to do full file globbing use the File::Glob module instead.
Routines
match_glob( $glob, @things_to_test )
Returns the list of things which match the glob from the source list.
glob_to_regex( $glob )
Returns a compiled regex which is the equivalent of the globbing pattern.
glob_to_regex_string( $glob )
Returns a regex string which is the equivalent of the globbing pattern.
SYNTAX
The following metacharacters and rules are respected.
"*" - match zero or more characters
"a*" matches "a", "aa", "aaaa" and many many more.
"?" - match exactly one character
"a?" matches "aa", but not "a", or "aaa"
Character sets/ranges
"example.[ch]" matches "example.c" and "example.h"
"demo.[a-c]" matches "demo.a", "demo.b", and "demo.c"
alternation
"example.{foo,bar,baz}" matches "example.foo", "example.bar", and "example.baz"
leading . must be explictly matched
"*.foo" does not match ".bar.foo". For this you must either specify the leading . in the glob pattern (".*.foo"), or set
$Text::Glob::strict_leading_dot to a false value while compiling the regex.
"*" and "?" do not match /
"*.foo" does not match "bar/baz.foo". For this you must either explicitly match the / in the glob ("*/*.foo"), or set
$Text::Glob::strict_wildcard_slash to a false value with compiling the regex.
BUGS
The code uses qr// to produce compiled regexes, therefore this module requires perl version 5.005_03 or newer.
AUTHOR
Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007 Richard Clamp. All Rights Reserved.
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
SEE ALSO
File::Glob, glob(3)
perl v5.16.2 2013-08-25 Text::Glob(3)