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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to send to perl the content of a bash variable as argument? Post 302961026 by Tribe on Monday 23rd of November 2015 06:46:49 AM
Old 11-23-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by Aia
I admit I am a little perplexed. Smilie

Why are you trying to call a Python script invoking it with the binary perl?
How do you know that Bash is not expanding and exporting RECEIVEDDATE?
Code:
export RECEIVEDDATE=$(date +"%Y%m%d.%H%M%S")

I'll say it is the only thing working there.
My mistake. It's python, not perl. I wrote incorrectly the thread title.


Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
Guessing that RECEIVEDDATE is the variable that you want to be handed over to / processed by the script, I can't see that neither supplied as a parameter to nor referenced within the script.
It doesn't matter because we are passing by value, not by reference, which is what @Aia suggests (reading from environment variable). I don't like that way because reading from environment variable is broken in some verison of python, so I prefer passing by value.

Anyway it's solved, because the problem was in the PTY communication. Changing the terminal solved the issue, so it's working properly as expected (bash replaces $RECEIVEDDATE with its contents before sending it as argument to perl).
 

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NAME
dh_pysupport - use the python-support framework to handle Python modules SYNOPSIS
dh_pysupport [debhelper options] [-V X.Y] [-X item [...]] [-n] [module dirs ...] DESCRIPTION
dh_pysupport is a debhelper program that will scan your package, detect public modules in /usr/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages, and move them to the shared Python modules location. It will generate appropriate postinst/prerm scripts to byte-compile modules installed there for all available python versions. It will also look for private Python modules and will byte-compile them with the current Python version. You may have to list the directories containing private Python modules. If a file named debian/pyversions exists, it is used to determine the python versions with which the package can work. Appropriate dependencies on python-support, python and pythonX.Y are put in ${python:Depends}. The ${python:Versions} and ${python:Provides} optional substitution variables are made available as well. OPTIONS
module dirs If your package installs private python modules in non-standard directories, you can make dh_pysupport check those directories by passing their names on the command line. By default, it will check /usr/lib/$PACKAGE, /usr/share/$PACKAGE, /usr/lib/games/$PACKAGE and /usr/share/games/$PACKAGE -n, --noscripts Do not modify postinst/postrm scripts. -d This option is deprecated. -V X.Y Force private modules to be bytecompiled with the specific X.Y python version, regardless of the default python version on the system. -X item, --exclude=item Exclude files that contain "item" anywhere in their filename from being taken into account to generate the python dependency. It also excludes them from byte-compilation. You may use this option multiple times to build up a list of things to exclude. CONFORMS TO
Python policy as of 2006-08-10 SEE ALSO
debhelper(7) This program is a part of python-support but is made to work with debhelper. AUTHORS
Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>, Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> 1.0.15 2012-06-30 DH_PYSUPPORT(1)
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