On 15 December 2010 16:21, Jim Gibson <jimsgib...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/15/10 Wed Dec 15, 2010 8:05 AM, "Mike Martin" <redt...@gmail.com> > scribbled: > >> Hi >> >> I am trying pass a perl one-liner to at intact eg: >> >> echo 'perl -mLinux::DVB::DVBT -e 'my >> $dvb=Linux::DVB::DVBT->new(O_NONBLOCK,'O_RDONLY');$dvb->set_frontend('frequenc >> y' >> => '497167000','tsid' => '4222');my $file="/storage/burn/testol";my >> $ref={pmt=>'10'};$dvb->set_demux(101,102);$dvb->record($file,"00:10",$ref); >> ' >> >> The aim is to run the one-liner from at >> >> However echo strips the quotes so the command fails to run >> >> any ideas or alternative approaches > > Put the call to perl in a shell script and schedule that. Don't fixate on > writing a one-liner. You don't really have a one-liner, and putting all of > your statements on one line accomplishes little. >
to explain further the aim is that the one-liner is generated on the fly and then passed to at to schedule recordings which is why I want it to be a one liner so that at wll parse it correctly generating seperate files for each iteration could get really, really messy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/