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Problems with the $ and scripts.

Author:William Crim
Posted:4/26/2000; 2:03:33 PM
Topic:Problems with the $ and scripts.
Msg #:16725
Prev/Next:16724 / 16726

The "$" delimeter, in the storyReader/msgReader, is causing problems with some shell/perl scripts on my system. (Since $ indicates a variable in most UNIX shell languages.) It works ok if I use lynx 'http://www.xmlrpc.com/discuss/msgReader$813', but if I call a wrapper script, it passes the raw string to Lynx.(which gets the $8 evaluated, so lynx gets "http://www.xmlrpc.com/discuss/msgReader13". Or, depending on the combinations of quotes, it gets "http://www.xmlrpc.com/discuss/msgreaderuser=gogmagog13". I don't have control of the scripts in question, and it is making me mad. :-)

Can someone remind me again why the "?" wasn't good enough? :-P

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