Re: build_commandline docs
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Jul 28, 2015
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petelomax said...
example2 contains
You can use this to run things that might be difficult to quote out:
Suppose you want to run a program that requires quotes on its command line? Use this function to pass quotation marks:
s = build_commandline( { "awk", "-e", "'{ print $1"x"" } )
Surely that is not legal syntax, is it?
Pete
Nope. I think one of the two were intended:
s = build_commandline( { "awk", "-e", `'{ print $1"x"$2; }'` } ) s = build_commandline( { "awk", "-e", """'{ print $1"x"$2; }'""" } )
