Share ignore and storing % tokens in a tdb
David Collier-Brown
davecb at canada.sun.com
Mon Jan 31 17:55:20 GMT 2000
Nicolas Williams wrote:
> Is there a function that will safely quote any shell metacharacters in a
> string such that that string can then be placed in double quotes and
> passed to /bin/sh -c?? I think we could use such a function, but I
> wonder how simple it would be.
I wrote one once for C (actually B!) quotes,
and it was mildly hairy.
Hmmn: or is it???
I suspect we want to evaluate all the `` and $var
constructs, so that the program called gets the right
information, and just protect against tokens like
"foo bar" turning into multiples...
Does that make sense? That would make:
open hook = scriptName %U "weegle woggle"
should turn into
popen("scriptName \"%U\" \"weegle woggle\"" ,"r");
--dave
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