11-01-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by
agama
Good -- you were there!!
NAME needs to be a variable in the script and not expanded when the script is written to at. So, if you escape it /$NAME that will put it literally in the script ($NAME) and not what name contains (which is nothing). Drop the last dollar sign.
The only other problem I see is that DONE should be lower case. That might just be a cut/paste issue; hard to say from this end.
With those changes it should send you mail with the list of names (I'd use echo to avoid errors if the list is empty).
Have a go with those changes -- you're a lot closer than you think!
Thanks and I got it, but I believe the $NAME should be \$NAME. That is the way it worked for me. I appreciate your help!
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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)