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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting exec perl in expect script yields "invalid command" Post 302589634 by dpouliot on Thursday 12th of January 2012 09:23:14 AM
Old 01-12-2012
Code:
/usr/bin/perl -i -pe 's/\015/\012/g' "/Users/Shared/menu-items.txt"

error "invalid command name \"/usr/bin/perl\"
    while executing
\"/usr/bin/perl -i -pe 's/\\015/\\012/g' \"/Users/Shared/menu-items.txt\"\"

Perhaps the error is too vague. Maybe it doesn't like something else about the syntax (even though that one line runs fine in the terminal)
Last edited by Scott; 01-12-2012 at 10:40 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 

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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD

smrsh

SMRSH(8)						      System Manager's Manual							  SMRSH(8)

NAME

       smrsh - restricted shell for sendmail

SYNOPSIS

       smrsh -c command

DESCRIPTION

       The smrsh program is intended as a replacement for sh for use in the ``prog'' mailer in sendmail(8) configuration files.  It sharply limits
       the commands that can be run using the ``|program'' syntax of sendmail in order to improve the over all security of your system.   Briefly,
       even  if  a  ``bad guy'' can get sendmail to run a program without going through an alias or forward file, smrsh limits the set of programs
       that he or she can execute.

       Briefly, smrsh limits programs to be in a single directory, by default /usr/libexec/sm.bin, allowing the system administrator to choose the
       set  of	acceptable  commands,  and  to the shell builtin commands ``exec'', ``exit'', and ``echo''.  It also rejects any commands with the
       characters ``', `<', `>', `;', `$', `(', `)', `
' (carriage return), or `
' (newline) on the command line to prevent ``end run'' attacks.
       It allows ``||'' and ``&&'' to enable commands like: ``"|exec /usr/local/bin/filter || exit 75"''

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       all actually forward to ``/usr/libexec/sm.bin/vacation''.

       System administrators should be conservative about populating the sm.bin directory.  For example, a reasonable  additions  is  vacation(1),
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       Compilation should be trivial on most systems.  You may need to use -DSMRSH_PATH="path" to adjust the default search  path  (defaults	to
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FILES

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SEE ALSO

       sendmail(8)

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