FVWM: Re: [HELP]PipeRead Strange Error Message

From: Parv <parv_at_pair.com>
Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 23:06:47 -0400

in message <284684067.01253_at_mails.tsinghua.edu.cn>,
wrote liushidai_at_mails.tsinghua.edu.cn thusly...
>
> + I PipeRead `ps x|grep Fvwm|sed -e
> "s/\\(.*\\)\\/\\(Fvwm[a-zA-Z]\\+\\).*/AddToMenu ModuleList \\2 KillModule
> \\2/"|sort|uniq`
>
> However, the PipeRead command stream is rendered as:
> ``28876 ? R 0:00 sh -c ps x|grep Fvwm|sed -e
> "s/\(.*\)\/\(Fvwm[a-zA-Z]\+\).*/AddToMenu ModuleList \2 KillModule
> \2/"|sort|uniq"

Notice that you are using ``, to execute a command in subshell
instead of '' which may or may not matter to fvwm. Try with '' or ""
instead of `` in any case.


  - Parv

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Received on Sun May 16 2004 - 22:08:40 BST

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