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RE: Backup and Incremental Backup Perl Scripts

From: Hughes, Trystan <Trystan.Hughes_at_assetco.com>
Date: 2005-05-24 11:10:19 CEST

>Make sure you add:

>use warnings;
>use strict;

>to the above perl, or any perl code for that matter, like so:

>#!/usr/bin/perl
>use warnings;
>use strict;

>my $var1 = shift @ARGV;
>my $var2 = shift @ARGV;

>print "$var1\n$var2\n";
 
Ok. Thanks, for you input people :)
 
Also, why have you used the 'shift' keyword for?
 
Thanks
 
Tryst

        You're mixing up bash syntax with perl.

        If you're using bash, you can do this:

        #!/usr/bin/bash

        #Note, no leading '$'
        var1=$1;
        var2=$2;

        echo $var1
        echo $var2

        If you're using perl, it uses a different syntax for retrieving cmd line
        parameters:

        #!/usr/bin/perl

        $var1 = $ARGV[0]
        $var2 = $ARGV[1]

        print "$var1\n$var2\n";

        HTH
        --e--

        --
        Edward Q. Bridges
        http://www.eqbridges.com/contact

        <quote who="Hughes, Trystan">
>
>>Here's what I use:
>>#!/bin/bash
>
>>REPOS=$1
>>REV=$2
>
>>BACKUP_DIR=/var/backups/subversion
>>FILENAME="$BACKUP_DIR/$REV-"`/bin/date +'%F-%H%M.incr.gz'`
>
>>`svnadmin dump $REPOS --revision $REV --incremental | gzip > $FILENAME`
>
>>This gets called from the post-commit hook script like so:
>
>>/usr/lib/subversion/hook-scripts/incremental-backup.sh "$REPOS" "$REV"
>
> Ok, I am having some problems with this.
>
> I have created a simple perl (.pl) file that is to take the command-line
> parameters and print them to the screen. Now my perl file I have created
> is as follows...
>
> #! perl (using Windows)
>
> $var1=$1;
> $var2=$2;
>
> print $var1."\n".$var2;
>
> And the command-line call that calls this script is as follows...
>
>>perl c:\test_incremental.pl "param1" "param2"
>
> Now it compiles ok, but all I get is blank output to the command prompt
> when I run the script, and not
>
> param1
> param2
>
> Hope someone can see where I am going wrong or missing something out.
>
> Thanks
>
> Tryst
>

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