10-18-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by
jlliagre
There is neither a comma nor an equal sign appearing in the first command line so obviously no need to escape them within it.
The commas and equals signs appear in the file names and folders, and these appear within the listoffiles.txt input file
apologies, I only noticed now that the comment
# (this command does need to have the equals and commas escaped
preceded the wrong line. It is meant to be before the rm command.
---------- Post updated at 01:49 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:46 PM ----------
I have edited the script in my post, and it now appears as it should be.
The question remains
Thank you
---------- Post updated at 02:20 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:49 PM ----------
OK, my apologies,
I have not solved the problem but my question is irrelevant.
I discovered that the problem I am experiencing occurs whether or not the file names are escaped.
The filenames are corrupted in the results of the rm command-line and many were corrupted close to the equals signs and commas
The issue occurs intermittently so I assumed it had something to do with escaping the characters.
Now to figure out why.. thanks Anyway for the assistance
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css::dom::util
CSS::DOM::Util(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation CSS::DOM::Util(3pm)
NAME
CSS::DOM::Util - Utility functions for dealing with CSS tokens
VERSION
Version 0.14
SYNOPSIS
use CSS::DOM::Util ':all';
# or:
use CSS::DOM::Util qw[
escape unescape
escape_ident unescape_url
escape_str unescape_str
];
DESCRIPTION
This module provides utility functions for dealing with CSS tokens.
FUNCTIONS
All functions below that take one argument have a "($)" prototype, so they have the same precedence as "closedir" and "delete".
escape $string, $chars_to_escape
This escapes any characters in $string that occur in $chars_to_escape, which is interpreted as a regular expression. The regexp must
consume just one character; otherwise you'll find chars missing from the output. ASCII vertical whitespace (except the vertical tab) is
always escaped.
Printable non-alphanumeric ASCII characters and the space character are escaped with a single backslash. Other characters are encoded
in hexadecimal.
"escape" also considers that you might want to include the escaped string in a larger string, so it appends a space if the escaped
string ends with a hexadecimal escape with fewer than six digits.
unescape $string
This turns something like "H65llo" into "Hello" (including quotes).
escape_ident $string
escape_ident $string, $more_chars_to_escape
This escapes $string as a CSS identifier, escaping also any characters matched by $more_chars_to_escape.
unescape_url $url_token
Returns the URL that the token represents.
escape_str $string
Returns a CSS string token containing $string (within quotes; characters possibly escaped).
unescape_str $string_token
Returns the value that a CSS string token represents.
SEE ALSO
CSS::DOM
perl v5.10.1 2010-12-10 CSS::DOM::Util(3pm)