Re: ExecResult question

[Tod Oace]

> What do you do when there are 28 days in a month?

I'm just using it to ensure all the /var/log/sa/saDD and sarDD files 
exist. So 28 days is okay for this. Maybe I could've just created files 
for the current day rather than for all the days at once. Chip's 
application is likely different though.  -Tod


> Tod Oace <tod.r.oace@intel.com> writes:
>
>  % Heh....this is what I ended up doing a while ago:
>  %
>  % days = (
>  % 
> 01:02:03:04:05:06:07:08:09:10:11:12:13:14:15:16:17:18:19:20:21:22:23:
>  % 24:25:26:27:28:29:30:31 )
>  %
>  % Yes it's ugly and tedious, but it's more light-weight than forking 
> and
>  % running something else.
>  % -Tod
>  %
>  %
>  % On Aug 30, 2004, at 11:24, Chip Seraphine wrote:
>  %
>  % >
>  % > I'm trying to get a list of days-of-the-month to iterate over (01 
> thru
>  % > 31).
>  % > I'm doing this:
>  % >
>  % >         days=                           ( ExecResult(/usr/bin/perl -e 
> 'map{printf
>  % > "day%02d\n",$_}(1..31)') )
>  % >
>  % > The contents of ExecResult(), when pasted into a shell, work fine
>  % > (prints a
>  % > newline-delimited list of lines like "day01\nday02\n...").  
> However,
>  % > cfengine
>  % > seems to result in $(days) equalling "')" (less the doublequotes).
>  % > I've
>  % > been futzing about with the quote marks and backslashing various
>  % > characters
>  % > but haven't gotten anything to work.  Any ideas what I am doing 
> wrong?
>  % >
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