"Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Frank Küster wrote: > >> Thank you, that's nice. Oh, well, for the non-Perlmaniacs it might be >> confusing that two functions are called after the other, and hard to >> understand that print just prints the result of the pack or unpack >> function. Is >> >> perl -ne 'print(pack "u", $_);' >> >> better (and actually works always, not only with my test file)? >> > > Yes I suppose that is more legible. Don't forget to mention that $_ > has to become $$_ in a Makefile. I remember that totally confused me > when I first tried this and got weird errors.
In order to make that clear, I have added a complete Makefile snippet: +<example> +uuencode-file: + perl -ne 'print(pack "u", $$_);' $(file) > $(file).uuencoded + +uudecode-file: + perl -ne 'print(unpack "u", $$_);' $(file).uuencoded > $(file) +</example> Bug #397786 Thanks, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
