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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Prepare command before executing Post 302472029 by harman_6 on Tuesday 16th of November 2010 04:32:53 AM
Old 11-16-2010
Im trying to modify the "command" parameters itself
Hi,

Thanks for the early reply..
the ls was just an example...Im trying to modify another command which I have used at about a 100 places in the script...so to make it generic I wanted to write a function..

the command uses parameter a,b,c which perform totally different functions..


The ls command parameters need to be modified instead of the "file" parameters being passed...
 

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svn::svnlook

SVN::SVNLook(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					 SVN::SVNLook(3pm)

NAME

       SVN::SVNLook - Perl wrapper to the svnlook command.

SYNOPSIS

	 use SVN::SVNLook;

	 my $revision = 1;
	 my $svnlook = SVN::SVNLook->new(repo => 'repo url',
					  cmd => 'path to svn look');
	 my ($author,$date,$logmessage) = $svnlook->info(revision => $revision);

	 print "Author $author
";
	 print "Date $date
";
	 print "LogMessage $logmessage
";

DESCRIPTION

       SVN::SVNLook runs the command line client. This module was created to make adding hooks script easier to manipulate.

METHODs
   youngest
	 youngest ();

       Perform the youngest command on the repository.	Returns the revision number of the most recent revision as a scalar.

   info
	 info (revision=>$revision);

       Perform the info command, for a given revision or transaction using named parameters, or a single parameter will be assumed to mean
       revision for backwards compatibility. The information returned is an array containing author, date, and log message. If no $revision is
       specified, info for the youngest revision is returned.

   author
	 author (revision=>$revision);

       Perform the author command, for a given revision or transaction using named parameters or a single parameter will be assumed to mean
       revision for backwards compatibility. The information returned is the author message. If no $revision or transaction is specified, author
       for the youngest revision is returned.

   dirschanged
	 dirschanged (revision=>$revision)

       Performs the dirs-changed command, for a given revision or transaction using named parameters, or a single parameter will be assumed to
       mean revision for backwards compatibility. This method returns a boolean and an array reference.

   fileschanged
	 fileschanged (revision=>$revision)

       Performs the changed command, for a given revision or transaction using named parameters or a single parameter will be assumed to mean
       revision for backwards compatibility this method returns 3 array references added, deleted and modified.

   diff
	 diff (revision=>$revision)

       Performs the diff command, for a given revision or transaction using named parameters or a single parameter will be assumed to mean
       revision for backwards compatability this method returns a hash reference, with each file being the key and value being the diff info.

AUTHOR

       Salvatore E ScottoDiLuzio, <sal.scotto@gmail.com> Contributions by Kevin Semande

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2005 Salvatore E. ScottoDiLuzio.  All Rights Reserved.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.10.1							    2009-12-10							 SVN::SVNLook(3pm)
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