On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 10:02 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
Because the $1 is unquoted here you probably don't need the + in the
regexps. But you probably should quote $1 because of this:
[/Users/cameron]fleet* x='t*'
[/Users/cameron]fleet* echo $x
t*
[/Users/cameron]fleet* echo $x
the $1 is still unsafe, and cannot easily be made safe. (Actually,
bash's printf %q formatter may do the trick for you, and since you're
already in nonportable GNU sed land, you may as well step right in with
nonportable bash too:-)
I'm not sure what %q does. It's not in the info or
On 10Dec2008 20:52, Robert Wuest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 10:02 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
| Because the $1 is unquoted here you probably don't need the + in the
| regexps. But you probably should quote $1 because of this:
|
|[/Users/cameron]fleet* x='t*'
|
