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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: WMCoolmon on April 24, 2005, 05:17:55 pm

Title: Eh?
Post by: WMCoolmon on April 24, 2005, 05:17:55 pm

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*** sonic_1 ([email protected]) has joined channel #perl
can someone tell me whats wrong with this script?
#!/usr/bin/perl
for $x in 'ls --width=1';
do 'mv $x ~$x/Mailbox;chown $x.mail ~$x/Mailbox';
fi

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Title: Eh?
Post by: Taristin on April 24, 2005, 05:20:36 pm

umm. doesn't an fi ending mean you need an if begining?

Also... that whole thing just looks entirely wrong to me.  Granted I'm a rookie in Linux, but... we coverred that in class, and that seems completely wrong :p