[CALUG] offsite for file access

[Tim Spangler]

Off the top of my head, Perl execution of shell script where you want to capture STDOUT and using a file descriptor would be inappropriate (thinking of past problems with Cygwin).  

 

 

From: CALUG [mailto:calug-bounces at unknownlamer.org] On Behalf Of Jason C. Miller
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2019 12:38 PM
To: Bryan J Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: [CALUG] offsite for file access

 

Short of legacy Bourne-shell execution, what are the cases?

 

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 9:35 AM Bryan J Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org <mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org> > wrote:

Backticks are required in some cases though, so they do have their purpose.

 

- bjs

 

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 12:07 PM Jim Cottrell <jecottrell3 at comcast.net <mailto:jecottrell3 at comcast.net> > wrote:

STOP using Backticks!

GOOD: var=$(command args...)

BAD: var=`command args...`

At the Very Least, you won't have to explain what kind of Quotes you are 
using.

JIM

On 8/8/19 1:08 PM, Howard Bampton wrote:
> 1) Save message to a scratch file
> 2) egrep '(http:|https:)' /path/to/scratchfile > /path/to/newfile
> 3) wget `cat /path/to/newfile`
>
> The single quote marks in step 3 are back tics (`), not normal single 
> quotes (') [aka not the quote on the same key as the double quote key]

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