Re: Newbie need a clue

1. The EOUSAGE is just how the program is supposed to be used, inside of a here document. With here documents, you don't have to escape characters or anything and they can interpolate variables as well. You should read up on them.

2. The $0 variable is just what you said, it is the path to where the script is executing. What happens is with that substitution, it gets everything up to a slash in $0 (the .* part does that which should really be $0 =~ m#.*\\(.*)#; or so...) and deletes it.

Almost a Perl hacker.
Dave AKA damian
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(redmist) Re: Re: Newbie need a clue by redmist (Deacon) on Mar 29, 2001 at 10:14 UTC
Aha! But beware! Dot star will cause you trouble for Many Moons. See why here. redmist Silicon Cowboy	[reply]
Re: (redmist) Re: Re: Newbie need a clue by damian1301 (Curate) on Mar 30, 2001 at 01:08 UTC
Thank you and I am glad you pointed that out. I tried to get all the greediness I could on that because I wanted the expression to get all of the characters up to the last slash, and then the script's name that would follow. So, greediness can be good at times. Almost a Perl hacker. Dave AKA damian I encourage you to email me	[reply]