> Instead of backqouting put your shell calls inside a system().
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> #! /usr/bin/perl
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> system('dsmadmc command');
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> seems to work fine for me
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> Joel McCarty
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> Keith Kwiatek <kkwiatek AT NIST DOT GOV> on 01/04/2000 10:56:39 AM
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> Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
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>  To:      ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
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>  cc:      (bcc: Joel C McCarty/MIS/OKC/Hertz)
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>  Subject: How do you de-reference quotes in perl/dsmadmc
>           script?
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> Hello,
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> I have an adsm server script called webfilespacedelete as below:
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> delete filespace $1 $2 wait=yes
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> and I have a perl program as below:
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> `/bin/dsmadmc -servername=pipit -id=test -password=test123 run
> webfilespacedelete  test_node_name "\\\\gp's p5\\d$" > ./output.txt `
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> NOTICE the  tick mark in the filespace name (gp's)..... it keeps saying
> unmatched quotes when I run this.... how do I need to set up my perl
script
> to deference the tick? I have tried  double ticking  ('') and backslash
(\)
> with no luck.....
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> Please post and/or email me at kkwiatek AT nist DOT gov
> Thanks!
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> Keith
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