On Monday 26 March 2007 07:32, Dave Gray wrote: > On 3/25/07, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 25 March 2007 18:14, Matt Herzog wrote: > > > This is all I needed. I swear I had " /($searchstring)/; " in there at > > > some point before . . . so if I pass it > > > > > > -s "\.properties$" > > > > > > at the command line, it works as expetcted. Nice. > > > > That might be a shell thing? > > > > In Linux bash shell those quotes (I think) tell the shell to not > > interpret anything inside the quotes. > > bash quotes work like perl quotes: > > echo "$PS1" > echo '$PS1'
It's a different case here ie not a var, instead it's a command line that's entered into a shell, such command line being passed to Perl. And the command needs to make it to Perl without getting altered before it gets to Perl. -s "\.properties$" In that part of the command line, in this case the $ happens to also be a bash shell meta (or possibly interpreted) character. In this context, I was alledging that perhaps the quotes (on that command line) tell the bash shell to keep it literal (do not interpret the special character $). But, I don't know much. I guess there's even a way to run a Perl script without going through a shell in order to run the Perl script. If so, I don't know how to do it. -- Alan. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
