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?
