Bryan R Harris wrote at Tue, 11 Jun 2002 00:36:39 +0200:
> Slightly OT, but does anyone know how to pass an empty string to a script via the >command line? I > have a script that is invoked via: > > rename match-str replace-str <list of files> > > .... where the rename script does an s/match-str/replace-str/g on the filenames >(variables > evaluated, of course; the script already works). > > Sometimes I'd like to simply delete the match string, but I'm having trouble passing >an empty > string as the replace string. Unix seems to just ignore pairs of single or double >quotes. Any > suggestions? > perl -e 'print join "\n", @ARGV' 1 "" 2 3 prints at my computer: 1 2 3 Cheerio, Janek -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
