Strict Subs??

[Bruce Marshall]

On Thursday 09 November 2006 14:38, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> > Doing some googling, all I can find on this is an error message that perl
> > will put out. ?Yet as far as I know, there shouldn't be any perl involved
> > here.
>
> More info please? ?What is the simple script? ?If you see "Bareword"
> and "strict subs" together in a sentence, you are likely running some
> perl... perhaps where you shouldn't be? :) ?How is the script invoked?
> ?Does it specify the interpretter as #!/bin/??? on the first line?

Here's the first few lines:  This is script to run digikam where some pictures 
might be uploaded.  This then will do a rename on some of the new files to 
keep out caps etc.....

#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/digikam
cd /pictures/linpha/albums/bruce/canon/
echo "---Changing filenames to lower case"
chmod 666 /pictures/linpha/albums/bruce/canon/*
rename IMG_ img_ IMG*
rename .JPG .jpg *.JPG

When run, this does:

1) runs digikam
2) Does the echo  ---Changing filenames to lower case
3) Puts out the error message:

Bareword "IMG_" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at (eval 1) line 1.
syntax error at (eval 1) line 1, near "."


No perl that I can see...   I do notice that on suse, /bin/sh -->  bash   
whereas under kubuntu   /bin/sh -->  dash

So they are doing some funny things under the hood but changing the first line 
to be  /bin/bash   doesn't change the error msgs.




>
> > I'm still getting used to the (what I would call) ?screwed up root
> > situation under kubuntu. ? Seems they want to save me from myself and I
> > don't care for that attitude very much. ? I suspect my problems are
> > caused by their 'care'.
>
> It's just a "default". ?If you don't care for it, use "sudo passwd" and set
> the root password. ?Then you can run as root... except the KDE stuff which
> takes a user's password, which I think is brilliant. ?Think of it as
> them "not doing a Microsoft". ?The dumber users will simply be ushered into
> a safer world... but the guru's will always have their way with the
> system... it's still Linux :)

Yup...  I got a root password pretty quick but I don't think my problems are 
over because of things like the above....  :-(