It's -I. not -I
On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 5:05 PM, ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com> wrote:
> On 06/03/2018 02:54 PM, Brad Gilbert wrote:
>>
>> You can use q[./] instead of \'./\'
>> (especially useful so that it will work on both Windows and Unix
>>
>> But in this case it is even better to use -I and -M
>>
>> p6 -I. -MRunNoShell -e '( my $a, my $b ) =
>> RunNoShell::RunNoShell("ls *.pm6"); say $a;'
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 4:47 PM, ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com>
>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 5:28 PM ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com
>>>>> <mailto:toddandma...@zoho.com>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> What am I doing wrong here?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> $ p6 'lib \'./\'; use RunNoShell; ( my $a, my $b ) =
>>>>> RunNoShell::RunNoShell("ls *.pm6"); say $a;'
>>>>>
>>>>> bash: syntax error near unexpected token `='
>>>>>
>>>>> Huh ???
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> This is RunNoShell.pm6
>>>>>
>>>>> sub RunNoShell ( $RunString ) is export {
>>>>> ...
>>>>> return ( $ReturnStr, $RtnCode );
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> Many thanks,
>>>>> -T
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 06/03/2018 02:36 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> bash doesn't like nested single quotes, even with escapes. So the first
>>>> \'
>>>> gave you a literal backslash and ended the quoted part, then the second
>>>> \'
>>>> gave you a literal ' and continued without quoting. The final ' would
>>>> then
>>>> open a new quoted string, but bash doesn't get that far because it sees
>>>> the
>>>> (now unquoted) parentheses and tries to parse them as a command
>>>> expansion.
>>>>
>>>> allbery@pyanfar ~/Downloads $ echo 'x\'y\'z'
>>>> > ^C
>>>>
>>>> Note that it thinks it's still in a quoted string and wants me to
>>>> continue.
>>>>
>>>
>>> p6 does not like `lib ./`, meaning use the current directory
>>> without the single quotes. Any work around?
>
>
> It needs the path, which is ./
>
> $ perl6 -I -MRunNoShell '( my $a, my $b ) = RunNoShell::RunNoShell("ls
> \*.pm6"); say $a;'
>
> Could not open ( my $a, my $b ) = RunNoShell::RunNoShell("ls \*.pm6"); say
> $a;. Failed to stat file: no such file or directory
