Double quotes, or the one we were just discussing a few minutes ago.
use lib "./";
use lib <./>;
The trailing / doesn't do anything useful there, by the way.
On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 5:48 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?
>
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