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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions Refactoring via SHELL utilities Post 302562399 by Okysho on Thursday 6th of October 2011 06:45:02 PM
Old 10-06-2011
Woah! You lost me there, with your hip, young lingo son! (sorry, bad joke)

I was considering trying to modify the input to include white space, that way it'd be more distinguishable from other strings with the pattern inside it, but even if I wanted to, I can't get anything to compile yet.

Also... could you document your code for me? All I understand is "echo" and I see a few "pipes"
 

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CHROOT(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						 CHROOT(8)

NAME
chroot -- change root directory SYNOPSIS
chroot [-u -user] [-g -group] [-G -group,group,...] newroot [command] DESCRIPTION
The chroot command changes its root directory to the supplied directory newroot and exec's command, if supplied, or an interactive copy of your shell. If the -u, -g or -G options are given, the user, group and group list of the process are set to these values after the chroot has taken place. See setgid(2), setgroups(2), setuid(2), getgrnam(3) and getpwnam(3). Note, command or the shell are run as your real-user-id. ENVIRONMENT
The following environment variable is referenced by chroot: SHELL If set, the string specified by SHELL is interpreted as the name of the shell to exec. If the variable SHELL is not set, /bin/sh is used. SEE ALSO
chdir(2), chroot(2), environ(7) HISTORY
The chroot utility first appeared in 4.4BSD. SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
chroot should never be installed setuid root, as it would then be possible to exploit the program to gain root privileges. 4.3 Berkeley Distribution October 6, 1998 4.3 Berkeley Distribution
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