On Jun 18, 2007, at 4:22 PM, Lola J. Lee Beno wrote:
Joel Rees wrote:
Multi-line ommand?
sudo perl Makefile.PL \
--cflags="-I/usr/local/mysql/include -Os -arch i386 -fno-common" \
--libs="-L/usr/local/mysql/lib -lmysqlclient -lz -lm"
properly in Terminal?
I'm thinking that the lack of backslash terminates the command
line. What's it doing (or not)?
I was getting ">" everytime I hit return. Once I retyped that line
without the backslashes, it worked correctly.
Unlike Perl, the command-line shell doesn't accept multi-line
commands automagically. To use them you need to add a \ at the end of
each line as a "continuation" character. Instead of taking what
you've typed and running it, the shell changes the prompt to '>' and
accepts more input. When a line is entered without a trailing \, then
the whole series of lines is joined together and executed as one
command.
So you can run the above command without the trailing backslashes in
the first two lines above. That's what you'd do if you'd prefer to
type it all on one line instead of three separate lines.
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