send " ' " (single quote character) via system command?

[Ken Cole]

James,

Try using the file open/ write command or jsfile to create a text file and
then use the system command to run it with:

system "/bin/sh"<filename

Ken

On Sunday, 7 December 2014, James Flanagan <James at flantec.com> wrote:

> ok, I may have accidentally not included all the code to make myself
> clear.  my apologies.
>
> ::html_file="/www/"{5{"/"{1{".html":
> :exists(html_file) eq "0":unix="cat /www/template.html | sed
> \'s/XXXXX/"{1{"/g\' >"<html_file:
> ::msgbox unix:
> :exists(html_file) eq "0":system noredraw unix:
>
>
> The msgbox command is just there for troubleshooting.  when i test it, I
> get the following in the msgbox:
>
> cat /www/template.html | sed 's/XXXXX/wcpc1/g' > /www/wcc/wcpc1.html
>
> Copying and pasting the output of the msgbox does work properly to achieve
> the intended goal.  however, the command when run from the system command,
> results in an empty destination file.  that tells me that system command is
> processing the command all the way to the end, and is getting tripped up on
> the single quote (or possibly the pipe) somewhere in the middle.
>
> so my question again is there a way to send such a command and have the
> filepro system command pass it to the system properly?  thank you very much,
>
>
>
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> > On Dec 6, 2014, at 2:44 PM, Kenneth Brody <kenbrody at spamcop.net
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > On 12/6/2014 2:45 PM, Bill Campbell wrote:
> >> On Fri, Dec 05, 2014, James Flanagan wrote:
> >>> FreeBSD 9.2
> >>> Filepro 5.7.0.03
> > [...]
> >>> :exists(html_file) eq "0":unix="cat /www/template.html | sed
> \'s/XXXXX/"{1{"/g\' >"<html_file:
> >>> ::msgbox unix:
> >
> > You don't say what doesn't work.  (I assume you actually have a SYSTEM
> command somewhere?)
> >
> >> That script is a good example of the useless use of cat, and
> >> wouldn't work in any case with a < redirect and a pipe.
> >
> > Nit:
> >
> >   There is no "< redirect".  The "<" is the filePro
> concatenate-and-leave-one-space operator.
> >
> > Dropping the useless-cat, this should work (though I'm not on a *nix
> system at the moment to test it):
> >
> >    unix = "sed 's/XXXXX/" { 1 { "/g' </www/template.html >" { html_file
> >
> > Again, the OP doesn't explain what "doesn't work".
> >
> >> I would put your sed into a script then call the script avoiding
> >> any quoting issues.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Kenneth Brody
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