#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use Cwd; use POSIX; use Sys::Hostname; use File::Basename; sub interpolate { # heavily borrowed from http://search.cpan.org/~djerius/String-Interpolate-RE-0.03/lib/String/Interpolate/RE.pm my ($string, $repls, $opts) = (@_); $string =~ s{ ( (?:(\\.)(?:\{([^\}]+)\})?)| (?:\${(\w+)}) ) }{ my $v; my $t = (defined($2)) ? $2 : $4; if (exists($repls->{$t})) { $v = ref($repls->{$t}) eq 'CODE' ? &{$repls->{$t}}($t,$3) : $repls->{$t} } elsif (exists($ENV{$t})) { $v = $ENV{$t} } defined($v) ? $v : $1 }egx; return $string; } my $string = '\s\n\u@\h \w \D{%F}\n\t\n\T\n\@\n\A\n\$\n${LANG}\n\q\n${FOO} $ '; my %repls = ( '\a' => "\a", '\D' => sub { strftime($_[1], localtime) }, '\e' => "\029", '\h' => sub { (split(/\./,hostname()))[0] }, '\H' => sub { hostname() }, '\n' => "\n", '\r' => "\r", '\s' => sub { basename($0) }, '\t' => sub { strftime('%T', localtime) }, '\T' => sub { strftime('%I:%M:%S', localtime) }, '\A' => sub { strftime('%R', localtime) }, '\@' => sub { strftime('%I:%M %p', localtime) }, '\u' => sub { getpwuid($>) }, '\w' => sub { $_ = cwd(); s/$ENV{HOME}/~/ ; return $_; }, '\W' => sub { (cwd() eq $ENV{HOME}) ? '~' : basename(cwd()) }, '\$' => $>, ); print interpolate($string,\%repls) . "\n";