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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Expand Variables and Wildcards into another variable. Post 303035162 by wisecracker on Wednesday 15th of May 2019 01:07:26 PM
Old 05-15-2019
A very, very simple example:
Code:
Last login: Wed May 15 18:04:12 on ttys000
AMIGA:amiga~> ls Au*
AudioScope.Circuits       AudioScope.sh
AudioScope.Config         AudioScope_1.sh
AudioScope.Manual         AudioScope_Quick_Start.Notes
AMIGA:amiga~> 
AMIGA:amiga~> echo Au*
AudioScope.Circuits AudioScope.Config AudioScope.Manual AudioScope.sh AudioScope_1.sh AudioScope_Quick_Start.Notes
AMIGA:amiga~> _

 

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Config::PropertyConfigurator(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			 Config::PropertyConfigurator(3pm)

NAME
Log::Log4perl::Config::PropertyConfigurator - reads properties file SYNOPSIS
# This class is used internally by Log::Log4perl use Log::Log4perl::Config::PropertyConfigurator; my $conf = Log::Log4perl::Config::PropertyConfigurator->new(); $conf->file("l4p.conf"); $conf->parse(); # will die() on error my $value = $conf->value("log4perl.appender.LOGFILE.filename"); if(defined $value) { printf("The appender's file name is $value "); } else { printf("The appender's file name is not defined. "); } DESCRIPTION
Initializes log4perl from a properties file, stuff like log4j.category.a.b.c.d = WARN, A1 log4j.category.a.b = INFO, A1 It also understands variable substitution, the following configuration is equivalent to the previous one: settings = WARN, A1 log4j.category.a.b.c.d = ${settings} log4j.category.a.b = INFO, A1 SEE ALSO
Log::Log4perl::Config Log::Log4perl::Config::BaseConfigurator Log::Log4perl::Config::DOMConfigurator Log::Log4perl::Config::LDAPConfigurator (tbd!) COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright 2002-2009 by Mike Schilli <m@perlmeister.com> and Kevin Goess <cpan@goess.org>. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.10.1 2010-07-21 Config::PropertyConfigurator(3pm)
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