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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Executing commands through shell variable Post 302337287 by Scott on Thursday 23rd of July 2009 06:14:35 PM
Old 07-23-2009
Hi.

There is nothing wrong with your function.

The error
Code:
"bla/blaprintf: warning: ignoring excess arguments, starting with `bla/bla'

shows that the printf did run.

I get a different output:
Code:
/root/tmp/test # ./sample
"bla/bla/root/tmp/test #

But there's nothing wrong with your thinking. i.e.
Code:
/root/tmp/test # cat sample
#!/bin/ksh
fn()
{
$1
}
fn ls
 
/root/tmp/test # ./sample
a  b  blah  c  file1  file2  sample  tst
/root/tmp/test #

The problem you might be seing is with your printf itself.
 

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Config::Model::Backend::Yaml(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			 Config::Model::Backend::Yaml(3pm)

NAME
Config::Model::Backend::Yaml - Read and write config as a YAML data structure VERSION
version 2.021 SYNOPSIS
use Config::Model ; use Log::Log4perl qw(:easy) ; use Data::Dumper ; Log::Log4perl->easy_init($WARN); # define configuration tree object my $model = Config::Model->new ; $model ->create_config_class ( name => "MyClass", element => [ [qw/foo bar/] => { type => 'leaf', value_type => 'string' }, baz => { type => 'hash', index_type => 'string' , cargo => { type => 'leaf', value_type => 'string', }, }, ], read_config => [ { backend => 'yaml' , config_dir => '/tmp', file => 'foo.yml', auto_create => 1, } ], ) ; my $inst = $model->instance(root_class_name => 'MyClass' ); my $root = $inst->config_root ; my $step = 'foo=yada bar="bla bla" baz:en=hello baz:fr=bonjour baz:hr="dobar dan"'; $root->load( step => $step ) ; $inst->write_back ; Now, "/tmp/foo.yml" contains: --- bar: bla bla baz: en: hello fr: bonjour hr: dobar dan foo: yada DESCRIPTION
This module is used directly by Config::Model to read or write the content of a configuration tree written with YAML syntax in "Config::Model" configuration tree. Note that undefined values are skipped for list element. I.e. if a list element contains "('a',undef,'b')", the data structure will contain 'a','b'. CONSTRUCTOR
new ( node => $node_obj, name => 'yaml' ) ; Inherited from Config::Model::Backend::Any. The constructor will be called by Config::Model::AutoRead. read ( io_handle => ... ) Of all parameters passed to this read call-back, only "io_handle" is used. This parameter must be IO::File object already opened for read. It can also be undef. In this case, "read()" will return 0. When a file is read, "read()" will return 1. write ( io_handle => ... ) Of all parameters passed to this write call-back, only "io_handle" is used. This parameter must be IO::File object already opened for write. "write()" will return 1. AUTHOR
Dominique Dumont, (ddumont at cpan dot org) SEE ALSO
Config::Model, Config::Model::AutoRead, Config::Model::Backend::Any, perl v5.14.2 2012-11-09 Config::Model::Backend::Yaml(3pm)
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