<quote who="Hughes, Trystan">
>
> >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?
It's just a easier way of doing the same thing. It "shifts" the first item
off of the ARGV array, which is the same as $ARGV[0], and then the second
$ARGV[1].
See:
http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/shift.html
Anyway, this is not the place for this kind of chat.
If you are interested, you should join the perl beginners mailing list or
perlmonks.org
>
> Thanks
>
> Tryst
>
> You're mixing up bash syntax with perl.
>
> If you're using bash, you can do this:
>
> #!/usr/bin/bash
>
> #Note, no leading '$'
> 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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