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Old 05-14-2010
how to escape dollar in unixcommand
i have

Code:
my @tmp = `egrep 'jpg$|gif$' output.txt`;

perl assumes $ as a variable;
i tried escaping but failed please help me
# 2  
Old 05-14-2010
Try
Code:
my @tmp = `egrep 'jpg\$|gif\$' output.txt`;

Actually, I'd say it has nothing to do with Perl in that case, since egrep is an external command.
It searches for two patterns (incl. "$" regular expression, which stands for "end of line").
I hope I'm not terribly off base Smilie
Last edited by pseudocoder; 05-14-2010 at 02:52 PM..
# 3  
Old 05-14-2010
Two contexts
please anyone can help me in this context

1)use dollar in commands

Code:
my @tmp = `egrep 'jpg$|gif$' output.txt`

2)i want to find a $string variable in my perl program in the above command

Code:
my @tmp = `egrep 'jpg$|gif$|$string' output.txt`

please correct me where ever required please help me with this escaping stuff
# 4  
Old 05-14-2010
Did you try psuedocoder's code?
# 5  
Old 05-14-2010
this is the unfortunate side-effect of cobbling solutions together, but for this Perl has the handy-dandy system() family of commands executing external commands | Perl HowTo.

You'll probably need to handle it differently from what you're doing, or if you're calling this perl from a shell, maybe do a
Code:
for item in $list ;do perl.pl $item ;done

as needed...
# 6  
Old 05-17-2010
If you want to read from a file, do it properly. With Perl, there's almost never a need to call a standard UNIX utility externally, because the functionality is already there.
Code:
open my $file, '<', 'output.txt' or die "Can't open output.txt: $!";
my @tmp = grep { /jpg$/ || /gif$/ } map { chomp } <$file>;
close $file;

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