Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Not quite. That's because QProcess doesn't allow them and I had both no > time and sufficient motivation to support shell metacharacters in the > parser that I had to write for letting things work. I find that allowing > ; and | entails no security risk (as they are not taken from random > external sources, but directly from the user) and they are useful for > exactly the reason that you are not forced to write a script for cases > like this.
OK, then my memory was wrong (I remembered some discussions about security concerns regarding metacharacters). Georg