01-28-2002
I don't think so, although I have to admit Man pages are not the easiest thing to understand.
I think this for the following three reasons:
1) I don't use the parameter until after the BEGIN statement
2) This wouldn't quite account for the different results I get from the same script just run on an SGI and SUN.
3) I can do math on the parameter (sorry I lied). What I can't do is use the parameter in an elvaluation test (i.e. an if test). If I use it in an if statment it just seems to set the parameter to zero. Yet if I print the parameter in the then part of the if statment it gives me it's correct verion.
I have look around for alternate version of AWK but don't have the one you mention but I do have nawk, oawk & pawk.
My main curiosity was why it awk would fail like that. I can get roung the problem by confining the awk scripts use to SGI machines.
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escape
escape(1) Mail Avenger 0.8.3 escape(1)
NAME
escape - escape shell special characters in a string
SYNOPSIS
escape string
DESCRIPTION
escape prepends a "" character to all shell special characters in string, making it safe to compose a shell command with the result.
EXAMPLES
The following is a contrived example showing how one can unintentionally end up executing the contents of a string:
$ var='; echo gotcha!'
$ eval echo hi $var
hi
gotcha!
$
Using escape, one can avoid executing the contents of $var:
$ eval echo hi `escape "$var"`
hi ; echo gotcha!
$
A less contrived example is passing arguments to Mail Avenger bodytest commands containing possibly unsafe environment variables. For
example, you might write a hypothetical reject_bcc script to reject mail not explicitly addressed to the recipient:
#!/bin/sh
formail -x to -x cc -x resent-to -x resent-cc
| fgrep "$1" > /dev/null
&& exit 0
echo "<$1>.. address does not accept blind carbon copies"
exit 100
To invoke this script, passing it the recipient address as an argument, you would need to put the following in your Mail Avenger rcpt
script:
bodytest reject_bcc `escape "$RECIPIENT"`
SEE ALSO
avenger(1),
The Mail Avenger home page: <http://www.mailavenger.org/>.
BUGS
escape is designed for the Bourne shell, which is what Mail Avenger scripts use. escape might or might not work with other shells.
AUTHOR
David Mazieres
Mail Avenger 0.8.3 2012-04-05 escape(1)