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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 31/05/2022 11:56, Dirk Koopman via
Dxspider-support wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:7d66b341-8175-940a-062e-9a9921895370@tobit.co.uk"><font
face="Calibri">spawn("find /spider/local_data/logs -type f
-mtime +62 -exec rm -f {} \;").</font></blockquote>
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<font face="Calibri">is actually wrong, because the \; is required
by the underlying shell that spawn runs the find command in, and
should be \\; if using " as the quoting character for the spawn().
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<font size="4">This is a one of those perl quoting conundrums. This
is probably better quoted like this:<br>
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<font size="4"><font size="4"><font face="Calibri"><font
face="monospace">spawn('find /spider/local_data/logs -type f
-mtime +62 -exec rm -f {} \;').</font><br>
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</font></font>or<br>
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</font><font size="4" face="monospace">spawn(q[find
/spider/local_data/logs -type f -mtime +62 -exec rm -f {} \;]).<br>
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</font><font size="4"><font face="Calibri">sorry about that.<br>
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Dirk G1TLH<br>
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