Passing on script generated arguments to erl

[Per Hedeland]

david wallin <david.wallin@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>blimey! you're right. thanks,

Just in case you want a non-erlang solution to the non-erlang problem:

eval erl -- "$WORKLOAD"

--Per

>On 2004-07-05, at 14.07, Matthias Lang wrote:
>
>> david wallin writes:
>>
>>> I've run into a problem when using erl with a bash script that
>>> generates the arguments I want to use in erlang.
>>
>> Your problem is not an Erlang problem, it's the way BASH works. A
>> script does almost exactly the same thing:
>>
>>    tmp >cat shellscript
>>    #!
>>    echo "1:$1   2:$2"
>>
>>    tmp >WORKLOAD="'foo 1' 'foo 2'"
>>    tmp >echo $WORKLOAD
>>    'foo 1' 'foo 2'
>>    tmp >./shellscript $WORKLOAD
>>    1:'foo   2:1'
>>
>> Matthias
>>
>>> If I type something like this at the bash prompt everything works 
>>> fine:
>>>
>>> 	[dolly:~/southpaw] david% erl -- 'foo 1' 'foo 2'
>>>
>>> 	Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.3 [source]
>>>
>>> 	Eshell V5.3  (abort with ^G)
>>> 	1> init:get_plain_arguments().
>>> 	["foo 1","foo 2"]
>>>
>>>
>>> If I try the script that automatically generates the arguments (just
>>> assume that the WORKLOAD var is generated by a script):
>>>
>>> 	[dolly:~/southpaw] david% WORKLOAD="'foo 1' 'foo 2'"
>>> 	[dolly:~/southpaw] david% echo $WORKLOAD
>>> 	'foo 1' 'foo 2'
>>> 	[dolly:~/southpaw] david% erl -- $WORKLOAD
>>> 	Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.3 [source]
>>>
>>> 	Eshell V5.3  (abort with ^G)
>>> 	1> init:get_plain_arguments().
>>> 	["'foo","1'","'foo","2'"]
>>>
>>>
>>> Can anybody give me some advice on the matter, I'm currently leaning
>>> towards creating a temp file containing the arguments but the solution
>>> doesn't appeal to me.
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>>
>>> --david.
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