Hello Perl Monks,
I am trying to execute a psql command via the system command within perl and I quite cant get it to function.
If i try from the UNIX command line by performing the following it works as expected.
I've copied the PSQL variable to the perl script and it just fails
What am i overlooking?
Unix CLI
root@ave:/home/admin/scripts/#: PSQL="psql -p 5555 mcdb -c \"update ev
+_cus_prof set active='f' where epid='INIT_EV_HIGH_PRIORITY';\""
root@ave:/home/admin/scripts/#: su - admin -c "$PSQL"
UPDATE 1
root@save:/home/admin/scripts/#:


Perl script snippit
====================
Print_Success("\nDisabling ConnectEMC & Email Home\n");
my $PSQL="psql -p 5555 mcdb -c \"update ev_cus_prof set active=\'f\' w
+here epid=\'INIT_EV_HIGH_PRIORITY\';\"";
print "PSQL: $PSQL \n";
system("su - admin -c \"$PSQL\"");


Perl Output
======================================================================
+=============================
Disabling ConnectEMC & Email Home
PSQL: psql -p 5555 mcdb -c "update ev_cus_prof set active='f' where ep
+id='INIT_EV_HIGH_PRIORITY';"
ERROR:  syntax error at end of input
LINE 1: update
              ^
sh: : command not found

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In reply to processing PSQL with system command by g_speran

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