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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Why Does Command Run From Prompt But Not From Script? Post 302237344 by Korn0474 on Wednesday 17th of September 2008 12:54:04 PM
Old 09-17-2008
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Originally Posted by ShawnMilo
How about putting echo statements every other line, so you know where it's failing?
Thanks for the suggestion Shawn but there's only two lines and those lines are static (no variables, etc) so echoing them would not show anything different then what is already in the script.
 

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Net::Sieve::Script::Action(3pm) 			User Contributed Perl Documentation			   Net::Sieve::Script::Action(3pm)

NAME
Net::Sieve::Script::Action - parse and write actions in sieve scripts SYNOPSIS
use Net::Sieve::Script::Action; $action = Net::Sieve::Script::Action->new('redirect "bart@example.edu"'); or $action = Net::Sieve::Script::Action->new(); $action->command('redirect'); $action->param('"bart@example.edu"'); DESCRIPTION
Action object for Net::Sieve::Script, with command and optional param. Support RFC 5228, RFC 5230 (vacation), regex draft METHODS
CONSTRUCTOR new Argument : "command param" string, parse valid commands from RFCs, param are not validate. command read command : "$action->command()" set command : "$action->command('stop')" param read param : "$action->param()" set param : "$action->param(' :days 3 "I am away this week."')" equals return 1 if actions are equals AUTHOR
Yves Agostini - Univ Metz - <agostini@univ-metz.fr> <http://www.crium.univ-metz.fr> COPYRIGHT
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module. perl v5.10.0 2008-09-15 Net::Sieve::Script::Action(3pm)
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