On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 12:08:26 -0500, John McKown wrote:
>
>... If I wanted to set multiple environment variables, I'd
>"protect" myself a bit with something like:
>
>$(somecommand ... | egrep '^export +(VAR1|VAR2|VAR3)=')
>
>This would ensure that regardless of what "somecommand" wrote to
>stdout, I'd just do export commands for the environment variables that
>I was interested in. It is a _little bit_ safer. After setting them, I
>might want to validate them as well, somehow.
>
And if somecommand is "echo 'export VAR1=bubba; sudo rm -rf /'"?
http://xkcd.com/327/
Beware the semicolon!
-- gil
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