[TxMt] Template Code

[Allan Odgaard]

On 28/9/2006, at 23:17, Ketan Anjaria wrote:

> This is my template command
> if test \! -e "$TM_NEW_FILE"; then
>    TM_YEAR=`date +%Y` \
>    TM_DATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d` \
>    TM_USERNAME=`niutil -readprop / /users/\$USER realname` \
>    TM_PACKAGE=`sed <<<"$TM_NEW_FILE_DIRECTORY" 's#.*classes/
> ##'|tr / .`
>    perl -pe 's/\$\{([^}]*)\}/$ENV{$1}/g' \
>       < class.as > "$TM_NEW_FILE"
> fi
>
> And TM_PACKAGE comes out blank.
>
> what am I doing wrong?

You need to put a \ last on the line with sed. This makes all the  
variable settings appear on the same line as perl, so perl inherits  
these variables.

The alternative is to prefix each variable setting with ‘export’ so  
that the variable gets exported to subprocesses.