On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 05:17:08AM -0700, Will Coleda via RT wrote: > On Tue Apr 14 01:44:39 2009, samm...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I think this line is wrong: > > line 47: system(qw(svn checkout -r), $required , qw( > > https://svn.parrot.org/parrot/trunk parrot)); > > > > all qw should be removed, in my ubuntu, i think what' s happening is > it's > > removing all the spaces, so I'm getting a bunch of error messages, i > think > > this is better: > > system("svn checkout -r" . $required . " " . " > > https://svn.parrot.org/parrot/trunk parrot"); > > > > Regards, > > Sam > > Out of curiosity, what error messages are you getting? > > BTW, this command looks right to me, passing a list to system() instead > of a string avoids shell escaping issues.
The original looks right to me too, as long as $required contains a single file name and not a blank separated list. (But that would get treated instead as a single file name that had embedded blanks, which is the opposite symptom to the original description.)
