---- "Mark A. Hershberger" <m...@nichework.com> wrote: > > Is there a piece of standard code or a library that I can use to escape > a string so it is safe to pass to bash? > > Specifically, I have submitted this bit[1] to add deletion of duplicate > messages to a guile script included with mu (maildir utils) and now > we're looking at how to escape the file names to keep this maliciously > inserted maildir files from causing problems. > > Any hints?
How about using system* instead and pass your arguments directly instead of letting a shell (mis)interpret them? -Dale
