Setting EAs and perl help

djo2112

I apologize that I am not a perl programmer in advance: Please forgive me! :-)

I am attempting to set the extended attributes on files in a branch that I have copied from another branch.

I am using set_attributes_nt.ipl

It works for the majority of the files except for paths that have spaces.

Example: Y:/main/branch/WORKAREA/Dave_wa/default.asp=TeamSite/Templating/PrimaryDocumentType=Template B/Landing

The space between the word "Template" and the letter "B" cause issues. The line of perl that splits the paths is the middle line below:


chomp($_);
($file,$attribute) = split ("=", $_, 2);
$cmd = "$iwextattr -s $attribute $file";


My keen sense of logic tells me that the $attribute parameter has a value of "Template" and not "Template B/Landing".


A) Who can suggest a fix to this split function?
Is there an updated .ipl I really should be using?
C) I'm living in the past and the new way to do this is...

Thanks!

-Dave

nipper

Yea That is a problem

there are better solutions now. Are you copying from one branch to another within the same server ? User copy to and that will copy all EAs as well

You can also set up OpenDeploy to deploy from one server to another. OD can move EAs as well. That is how I move content from dev to prod now.

If you really need to use this script, IIRC, the issue was with reading/setting EAs on a file with a space.

so a command like this was running:

iwextattr -s EA=This file name.html

It should be something like

iwextattr -s 'EA=put quotes here' 'file name.html'



So I would change this line to

$cmd = "$iwextattr -s '$attribute' '$file'";


you want to use single quotes if the main string uses double quotes. otherwise it would be something like this:

$cmd = "$iwextattr -s \"$attribute\" \"$file\"";

using the backslash to escape the quote, not too readable.

HTH

Andy