Re: Don't understand the errors

2009-10-19 Thread John W. Krahn
Harry Putnam wrote: John W. Krahn jwkr...@shaw.ca writes: Harry Putnam wrote: I'm not sure what these errors are telling me. The script is supposed to remove dups from .bash_history Wouldn't it be simpler to set HISTCONTROL to ignoredups: export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups Or: export

Re: Don't understand the errors

2009-10-19 Thread Dermot
2009/10/19 Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com: use File::Copy; Dermot commented: It might be best to put this at the top of your script with all the other loadable modules your using. Harry asks: Do you think it would make a difference in how the script behaves? Or do you mean for the sake

Re: Don't understand the errors

2009-10-19 Thread reader
John W. Krahn jwkr...@shaw.ca writes: I'm on a single user machine at home. I'm thinking I could just write to /tmp/BashHistoryDeDup.tmp with the `' flag, overwriting on each run and forget unlinking That could be a security hole. Even though you have a single user machine it is always

Don't understand the errors

2009-10-18 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm not sure what these errors are telling me. The script is supposed to remove dups from .bash_history but not operate on the last 12 lines... just reprinting them. ./uniqbh.pl Copying ./bash_history to ./bash_history-101809_020827 Unlinking ./bash_history Copying /tmp/lPlN3goGnI.tmp

Re: Don't understand the errors

2009-10-18 Thread Dermot
2009/10/18 Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com: Hi, I can't say I am absolutely sure what the error is referring to but I can see where you might begin to look for clues. I'm not sure what these errors are telling me. The script is supposed to remove dups from .bash_history but not operate on

Re: Don't understand the errors

2009-10-18 Thread Jim Gibson
At 2:11 AM -0500 10/18/09, Harry Putnam wrote: I'm not sure what these errors are telling me. I have not used File::Temp nor File::Copy very much. However, I think you are not using File::Temp in its intended way, according to the documentation. What version of File::Temp are you using? I

Re: Don't understand the errors

2009-10-18 Thread John W. Krahn
Harry Putnam wrote: I'm not sure what these errors are telling me. The script is supposed to remove dups from .bash_history Wouldn't it be simpler to set HISTCONTROL to ignoredups: export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups Or: export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth but not operate on the last 12 lines...

Re: Don't understand the errors

2009-10-18 Thread Harry Putnam
[...] Harry wrote: require File::Temp; use File::Temp (); Dermot queried: Does this refer to the standard module or something else. If you are (and I hope you are) using the standard File::Temp module then substitute this: require File::Temp; use File::Temp (); Dermot continued: for

Re: Don't understand the errors

2009-10-18 Thread Harry Putnam
John W. Krahn jwkr...@shaw.ca writes: Harry Putnam wrote: I'm not sure what these errors are telling me. The script is supposed to remove dups from .bash_history Wouldn't it be simpler to set HISTCONTROL to ignoredups: export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups Or: export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth