No, the path is just '.'. The trailing '/' does nothing. (Actually, it will
be handled as './.' which is also the same as just '.'.)
Trailing slash somehow being required for directories is a bit of shell
cargo culting.
On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 6:06 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
>
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