From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Shell quoting
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:35:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vpsrayviz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509151153140.26803@g5.osdl.org> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:01:17 -0700 (PDT)")
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> You could expand "sq_quote" to handle '!' and '\' characters the exact
> same way it handles the single tick (end single-tick quoting, do \! or \\
> and start single-tick quoting again) and that might be good enough for
> tcsh.
>
> IOW, the string "a\b'c!d" would become 'a'\\'b'\''c'\!'d' after
> surrounding sq_quote with single-ticks.
I vaguely recall you had a code that assumes what sq_quote()
produces and unquote it without using shell. If somebody does
the above change for '!' and '\', that code may need to be
checked and adjusted as well.
Sorry I could not give more specifics -- I've been looking for
the code I am talking about unsuccessfully for the past 30
minutes..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-15 19:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-15 5:50 [PATCH] Remove shell dependency in env.c H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-15 7:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-15 16:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-15 18:44 ` Shell quoting H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-15 19:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-15 19:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-15 19:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-15 20:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-15 19:35 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2005-09-15 20:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-16 19:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-15 19:33 ` [PATCH] rsh.c env and quoting cleanup, take 2 H. Peter Anvin
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