You missing a strong quote at the beginning of your statement.
Actually that's a typo. Sorry. It doesn't work with strong quotes either.
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Ok, it looks like it just wasn't working over SSH. What I was actually trying to do was have a little background app pull commands from a mysql database and run them, but something about the formatting must get changed when pulling the command that way, because it fails to run on some machines. I ended up just storing the command within the app and it seems to work fine.
Hi All
In a script, I want a user to enter 4 characters, these can be a mix of letters (uppercase and lowercase) and numbers.
In this example $var represents what the user has entered.
eg $var can be A9xZ, 3DDL, bbHp .........etc
I need to check that the user has only entered characters... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have trouble with quotations of the M4 preprocessor.
I want to write a basic makro that removes all spaces and newlines at the end and at the beginning of a string.
I tried this:
define(`TRIM_END', `patsubst(`$1', `\(\\n\| \)*$', `')')
define(`TRIM', `patsubst(`TRIM_END(`$1')',... (0 Replies)
Can someone explain the following? I can use find on *.pm without quotes, but find on *.pl makes on error, I need quotes for the second version. What's up with that?
$find -name *.pm
./tieProxyStatus/Status.pm
$find -name *.pl
find: paths must precede expression
Usage: find
$find... (2 Replies)
hi guys, i have a question related to quoting but i am not sure how to formulate it...
lets say we want to simulate the following shell actions
cd ~/project-dir
ctags /home/work/folder1/*.sh /home/work/folder2/*.sh /home/work/folder3/*.sh
so i make the following script
buidtags.sh
... (2 Replies)
I can do this on the command line:
sqsh -S 192.168.x.x -o tmp -U user -P fakepass -D horizon -C "\
select second_id
from borrower
where btype like '%wsd%'
"
I can also just leave the SQL at the end intact on one line ....
... However, when I throw this in a script like:
$SQSH -o... (4 Replies)
Hi all,
i have a file that looks like:
one:two:three:four:five
six:seven:eight:nine:ten
and i'd like to quote the fourth column, getting:
one:two:three:"four":five
six:seven:eight:"nine":ten
i was thinking something like:
awk 'BEGIN{FS=":"}{print $1 FS $2 FS $3 FS \"$4\" FS $5}'... (5 Replies)
I am writing a bash script to automate the installation of web environment on a base install of Fedora. And I'm at the limit of my last nerve and my bash skills. My brain is screaming at me: "Give up and use perl", but I am trying to stick to bash since the script will modify the perl environment... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I have got a file comp_data containing the below data :
38232836|9302392|49
39203827|8203203,3933203|52
72832788|567,3245,2434324|100
This file can have many rows like shown above. I want the values separated by "," in second column(taking "|" as delimiter) to be in quotes. These... (2 Replies)
I am trying to write a BASH script that will prompt a user to enter a number of days, then calculate the date.
My problem is the date command uses single or double quotes. For Example..
date -d "7 days"
Here is an example of some same code I am trying to work through.
echo "when do you... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: javajockey
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graphics::primitive::insets
Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)NAME
Graphics::Primitive::Insets - Space between things
DESCRIPTION
Graphics::Primitive::Insets represents the amount of space that surrounds something. This object can be used to represent either padding
or margins (in the CSS sense, one being inside the bounding box, the other being outside)
SYNOPSIS
use Graphics::Primitive::Insets;
my $insets = Graphics::Primitive::Insets->new({
top => 5,
bottom => 5,
left => 5,
right => 5
});
METHODS
Constructor
new Creates a new Graphics::Primitive::Insets.
Instance Methods
as_array
Return these insets as an array in the form of top, right, bottom and left.
bottom
Set/Get the inset from the bottom.
equal_to
Determine if these Insets are equal to another.
left
Set/Get the inset from the left.
right
Set/Get the inset from the right.
top Set/Get the inset from the top.
zero
Sets all the insets (top, left, bottom, right) to 0.
AUTHOR
Cory Watson, "<gphat@cpan.org>"
SEE ALSO perl(1)COPYRIGHT & LICENSE
Copyright 2008-2010 by Cory G Watson.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.12.3 2010-08-21 Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)