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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Read file with paths in it Post 302391671 by xanthos on Tuesday 2nd of February 2010 06:36:33 AM
Old 02-02-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by FrankToy

@xanthos

Did the path display okay ? The space at the end of the lines was there in my script but not in the post so my guess is that it isn't okay.

Yes I,ve got the two backslash at the beginning,
You can try with #!/bin/bash
 

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symlink(3pm)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					      symlink(3pm)

NAME
PerlIO::via::symlink - PerlIO layers for create symlinks SYNOPSIS
open $fh, '>:via(symlink)', $fname; print $fh "link foobar"; close $fh; DESCRIPTION
The PerlIO layer "symlink" allows you to create a symbolic link by writing to the file handle. You need to write C"link $name" to the file handle. If the format does not match, "close" will fail with EINVAL. TEST COVERAGE
----------------------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ File stmt branch cond sub time total ----------------------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ blib/lib/PerlIO/via/symlink.pm 100.0 100.0 n/a 100.0 100.0 100.0 Total 100.0 100.0 n/a 100.0 100.0 100.0 ----------------------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ AUTHORS
Chia-liang Kao <clkao@clkao.org> COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2004-2005 by Chia-liang Kao <clkao@clkao.org>. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html> perl v5.8.8 2005-04-21 symlink(3pm)
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