On Friday 14 January 2022 at 00:15:28, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 12:45:09PM -0500, . via Dng wrote:
> > The shell receives a series of tokens, and tries to interpret the first
> > one as a command. In the double-quoted attempt above, it gets two
> > tokens before the first pipe | ---
> >
> > 1) "cat -n"
> >
> > 2) /etc/fstab
> >
> > Of course, the system has no command named "cat -n". (And only a chaotic
> > evil person would use a space in a command's name.) Something like
> > "cat" "-n" /etc/fstab
>
> Maybe to keep anyone from executing a potentially dangerous command by
> mistake?
That doesn't sound like the standard *nix approach to me.
Antony.
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