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# 1  
Old 07-29-2013
Trouble with catting a file

I have a perl script I am trying to modify and I cannot seem to get it to do right. I want it if the -l is ran with the script to cat the given file and then exit.

Code:
my ( $help, $version, $list );
my $query = 0;
my $default = '';
 
GetOptions(
  'd|default=s' => \$default,
  'q|query=s' => \$query,
  'v|version' => \$version,
  'h|help|?'  => \$help,
  'l|list' => \$list
) or pod2usage( 2 );
 
pod2usage( 1 ) if $help;
 
if ( $version ) {
  $VERSION =~ s/\$//g;
  print "$basenm $VERSION\n";
  exit( 0 );
}
 
pod2usage( 1 ) if ( !$query );
 
if ( $list ) {
  my $catcon = "/app/share/ecctools/etc/sysconfig/ecc-config.xml";
   open($catcon);
   print $catcon; 
   close($catcon);
  exit ( 0 );
}

The other options work fine with the rest of the script, but I can't get the -l listing to work and cat the file and exit Smilie
# 2  
Old 07-29-2013
That's not how open works, in your code you you define a variable and ask to print its value

Code:
if ( $list ) {
  my $catcon = "/app/share/ecctools/etc/sysconfig/ecc-config.xml";
   open(my $file_to_cat, '<', $catcon) || die("Could not open $catcon\n\t$!");
   while(<$file_to_cat>){
       print $_;
   }
   close($file_to_cat);
  exit ( 0 );
}

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# 3  
Old 07-29-2013
Thanx, it will now run fine without the $list if, just fine, I just need to figure out how to make it do it for the -l now
# 4  
Old 07-30-2013
Assuming you're using Getopt::Long then -l should work with the call to GetOptions you have.

Could you show us the entire script?

Last edited by Skrynesaver; 07-30-2013 at 05:51 AM..
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