[Chicago-talk] pass a scalar from procmail to perl?

richard at rushlogistics.com richard at rushlogistics.com
Tue Dec 21 10:02:10 PST 2010


Mike to the rescue! That worked like a charm. Thank you very much. If I ever make it to PM meeting I seriously owe you a beer.

Thanks again,

Richard
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From: Mike Fragassi
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Subject: Re: [Chicago-talk]pass a scalar from procmail to perl?
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I suspect that $SUBJECT is being passed in as an environment variable. 
In other words, it'd be like the difference between these 2 command lines:

    SUBJECT=Foo perl -e 'print $ENV{SUBJECT}'

vs.

    SUBJECT=Foo perl -e 'print $SUBJECT'

So try $ENV{SUBJECT} instead of $SUBJECT.

If that doesn't work, it might be quoting: you may need to use 
double-quotes around the command after the -e.

> * ? perl -e 'require "/home/richard/.pmdir/test_subject.pl"; test_subj("$SUBJECT");'

-- Mike F.
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