On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:02:27AM -0500, Shawn wrote: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 09:57:20 -0500 > "John J. Trammell" <trammell+tclug at el-swifto.com> wrote: > > > > > Untested one-liners: > > > > perl -le 'print qq[<a href="$_">$_</a><br>] for @ARGV' *.jpg > > > foo.html > > > > perl -le 'print qq[<p><img src="$_">] for @ARGV' *.jpg > bar.html > > > > Thanks John. I gotta learn perl.... No idea what any of that means. =P > > qq = echo equivalent to input to the file? > > @ ARGV = the argument of the script in brackets? > Perl r0x0rs! qq[xyz] is the same as "xyz", but lets you avoid backslashing internal quotes, e.g. qq["quoted"] eq "\"quoted\"". Just looks cleaner to me. "qq" is a mnemonic for "double quote". @ARGV contains the command-line arguments to the script, similar to $1, $2, etc. in sh. -- trammell at el-swifto.com 9EC7 BC6D E688 A184 9F58 FD4C 2C12 CC14 8ABA 36F5 Twin Cities Linux Users Group (TCLUG) Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list