Perl Command in Makefile Question

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

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•Re: Perl Command in Makefile Question by merlyn (Sage) on Jul 08, 2004 at 15:55 UTC
Makefiles require that you double-up the dollar signs. There may be other things wrong, but change your $_ to $$_. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.	[reply]
Re: Perl Command in Makefile Question by jfroebe (Parson) on Jul 08, 2004 at 16:20 UTC
Hi EchoAngel Adding to Randal L. Schwartz's reply, your perl one liner will produce one big number.. you need to use a space or some other delimiter between the numbers `perl -e 'print $_ foreach (1..200)'` Produces: 1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394 +041424344454647484950515253545556575859606162636465666768697071727374 +757677787980818283848586878889909192939495969798991001011021031041051 +061071081091101111121131141151161171181191201211221231241251261271281 +291301311321331341351361371381391401411421431441451461471481491501511 +521531541551561571581591601611621631641651661671681691701711721731741 +751761771781791801811821831841851861871881891901911921931941951961971 +98199200 [download] `perl -e 'print "$_ " foreach (1..200)'` Produces: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 2 +7 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 5 +0 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 7 +3 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 9 +6 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 11 +4 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 + 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 +149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 1 +66 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 18 +3 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 [download] No one has seen what you have seen, and until that happens, we're all going to think that you're nuts. - Jack O'Neil, Stargate SG-1	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Perl Command in Makefile Question by iburrell (Chaplain) on Jul 08, 2004 at 16:29 UTC
If you are Unix, the seq program generates a sequence of numbers. Much faster and simpler to use it instead of Perl. `NumberList := $(shell seq 1 200)` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Perl Command in Makefile Question by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Jul 08, 2004 at 17:13 UTC
Not sure what version of unix you are on, but HP-UX 11.0 does not have seq, so it is not portable. --MidLifeXis	[reply]