10-18-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by
jlliagre
There is neither a comma nor an equal sign appearing in the first command line so obviously no need to escape them within it.
The commas and equals signs appear in the file names and folders, and these appear within the listoffiles.txt input file
apologies, I only noticed now that the comment
# (this command does need to have the equals and commas escaped
preceded the wrong line. It is meant to be before the rm command.
---------- Post updated at 01:49 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:46 PM ----------
I have edited the script in my post, and it now appears as it should be.
The question remains
Thank you
---------- Post updated at 02:20 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:49 PM ----------
OK, my apologies,
I have not solved the problem but my question is irrelevant.
I discovered that the problem I am experiencing occurs whether or not the file names are escaped.
The filenames are corrupted in the results of the rm command-line and many were corrupted close to the equals signs and commas
The issue occurs intermittently so I assumed it had something to do with escaping the characters.
Now to figure out why.. thanks Anyway for the assistance
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addcslashes
ADDCSLASHES(3) 1 ADDCSLASHES(3)
addcslashes - Quote string with slashes in a C style
SYNOPSIS
string addcslashes (string $str, string $charlist)
DESCRIPTION
Returns a string with backslashes before characters that are listed in $charlist parameter.
PARAMETERS
o $str
- The string to be escaped.
o $charlist
- A list of characters to be escaped. If $charlist contains characters
,
etc., they are converted in C-like style, while
other non-alphanumeric characters with ASCII codes lower than 32 and higher than 126 converted to octal representation. When you
define a sequence of characters in the charlist argument make sure that you know what characters come between the characters that
you set as the start and end of the range.
<?php
echo addcslashes('foo[ ]', 'A..z');
// output: foo[ ]
// All upper and lower-case letters will be escaped
// ... but so will the []^_`
?>
<?php
echo addcslashes("zoo['.']", 'z..A');
// output: zoo['.']
?>
RETURN VALUES
Returns the escaped string.
CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------------+
|Version | |
| | |
| | Description |
| | |
+--------+---------------------------------------------+
| 5.2.5 | |
| | |
| | The escape sequences v and f were added. |
| | |
+--------+---------------------------------------------+
EXAMPLES
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