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Article #5070Re: perl question about > in file name
From: Dik T. Winter
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 1989 07:24
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 1989 07:24
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In article <40899@bbn.COM> cosell@BBN.COM (Bernie Cosell) writes: > In article <123@zip.eecs.umich.edu> don@zippy.eecs.umich.edu (Don Winsor) writes: > }Does anyone know if there is any way to make "perl" read from a > }file whose name begins with a ">" character? > > How about the standard unix tricks for dealing with that sort of problem: > either reference the file as "./>myfile" or as "/usr/home/me/dir/>myfile"? > Except that those do not work. Not with the Bourne shell nor with the Korn shell. With the shells you have to quote. -- dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland INTERNET : dik@cwi.nl BITNET/EARN: dik@mcvax
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!dik From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: perl question about > in file name Keywords: perl Message-ID: <8163@boring.cwi.nl> Date: 5 Jun 89 07:24:06 GMT References: <123@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <40899@bbn.COM> Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 14