Re: Getting $(allclasses) into a shellcommand

[Russell Adams]

How about create a temporary directory, ensure its empty, and then
iterate a shellcommand like 'touch $(allclasses)' in that directory?

Then your perl script could use the files to see the classes.

Just my $0.02.

Russell

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 01:16:38PM -0500, Chip Seraphine wrote:
> 
> I have some truly enormous $(allclasses) strings as a result of using 
> cfengine 
> to maintain my RPM distributions.  (If you define one 15-to-25 character 
> class for every RPM you need installed, and you need a few hundred RPMs right 
> after a clean kickstart....)
> 
> Anyway, I am having issues passing these large lists of classes into the perl 
> script that does the actual RPM installation.   Mark enlarged a buffer 
> somewheres when I had this problem earlier, but said buffer has been 
> outgrown...    I'd like to find a Proper Solution to this.
> 
> What is a better way than "/some/command $(allclasses)" for doing this sort 
> of 
> thing?  Is there some kind of iterator-type trick  anybody knows?
> 
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