system command

[Dennis Malen]

Ken,

I can't use show raw on 4.8.

Dennis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
To: "Fairlight" <fairlite at fairlite.com>
Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: system command


> Quoting Fairlight (Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:05:37 -0500):
> 
>> The honourable and venerable Fairlight spoke thus:
>> > In the relative spacial/temporal region of
>> > Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 03:43:25PM -0500, Dennis Malen achieved the
>> spontaneous
>> > generation of the following:
>> > > I would like to place the following string in a system command:
>> > >
>> > > echo "\033&oFvar searchnum=55555;CompileFile(\"260268.cs\");\015"
>> > >
>> > > When this line is executed on the command line it works perfectly.
>> > > The following is my processing for "system":
>> > >
>> > > Then:le="echo";lg="\"\\033&o";pa="Fvar
>> > > searchnum="{@rn{";CompileFile(\\\"260268.cs\\\");\\015\""
>>
>> I found your problem for you.  You need the code segment:
>>      CompileFile(\\\\"260268.cs\\\\")
>>
>> You were previously ending up with a result of:
>> CompileFile(\260268.cs\)
> 
> BTW, is there any reason the OP can't simply use SHOW RAW?
> 
>>
>> You need an extra backslash on each end.  Frankly, I'm not sure why
>> myself.
> [...]
>> Ken, John, anyone: why is the original syntax incorrect?  It's going to
>> give me nightmares.
> 
> I haven't looked at it too clisely, but you have to remember that you
> are passing it to the shell for execution, and not typing it at the
> command line, so you may need to escape the backslashes one more level.
> 
> Remember, in order to do something like:
> 
>    echo '\033'
> 
> you need to escape the backslash to get the shell to see it:
> 
>    sh -c "echo '\\033'"
> 
> (Note: I have not actually verified the above, as I'm not on a *nix
> box at the moment.)
> 
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