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Re: shell quoting
But, for the purposes of showing how something unintended
might occur (the f 'a b' solution is easy, but not particularly
productive), consider the following version
> sh.trick
f 'sh.*'
--> You Win! (again)
Now consider if the code did
set -- $foo
and instead of sh.trick (just one file that matches sh.*)
we instead did
> 'sh.junk foo=*.c'
and imagine what code which thinks it is getting a list
of sh.* files into the numeric args, instead gets a list
of all *.c files instead.
kre
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