Nested Heredocs and Shell Escapes (code)

deprecated has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

$ ksh << END_OF_KSH
> perl << END_OF_PERL
> my $foo = qq{ bar \n };
> print qq{ FOO=$foo };
> END_OF_PERL
> END_OF_KSH
$ echo $FOO

$
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The astute Shell hackers among us will see a nested set of heredocs. The more astute Shell hackers will say "but $foo is not escaped, nor is it defined within ksh, so perl sees '' instead of $foo." Well, that's what I thought too.

$ echo "$foo"

$ echo "\$foo"
$foo
$ echo << ECHO
$foo
ECHO

$ echo << ECHO
\$foo
ECHO

$ echo << ECHO
\\$foo
ECHO
\
$
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So it would seem that the shell escapes things differently within heredocs. How can I get my $foo's through to perl?

brother dep, shell warrior.

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Re: Nested Heredocs and Shell Escapes (code) by bikeNomad (Priest) on Jun 08, 2001 at 20:30 UTC
Quote the heredoc tags to prevent quoting: $ ksh <<'END_OF_KSH' > perl <<'END_OF_PERL' > my $foo=qq{bar \n}; > print qq{ FOO=$foo }; > END_OF_PERL > END_OF_KSH FOO=bar $	[reply]
Re: Nested Heredocs and Shell Escapes (code) by traveler (Parson) on Jun 08, 2001 at 20:31 UTC
Umm, the problem is the test. echo doesn't read stdin! Try `% foo=bar % cat<<EOF >$foo >EOF bar` [download] If you want to preserve the "$foo" do `% foo=bar % cat<<'EOF' >$foo >EOF $foo` [download] --traveler	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Nested Heredocs and Shell Escapes (code) by no_slogan (Deacon) on Jun 09, 2001 at 00:01 UTC
Good call. Perl's << is a bit different from the shell's, so you can't blindly translate `print` to `echo` in the perl code `print <<FOO bar FOO` [download] This should probably be mentioned in perltrap, but it's not. Aside from the quoting issue, it's never going to work the way deprecated seems to want, because environment variables don't get passed from child back to parent. If you want to set variables in your current shell, you need to do something like this: $ eval `perl -e 'print "FOO=bar"'` $ echo $FOO bar [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Nested Heredocs and Shell Escapes (code) by I0 (Priest) on Jun 08, 2001 at 20:44 UTC
`ksh << END_OF_KSH > perl << END_OF_PERL > my \\\$foo = qq{ bar \n }; > print qq{ FOO=\\\$foo }; > END_OF_PERL > END_OF_KSH` [download]	[reply] [d/l]


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