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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Safely parsing parameters Post 302590155 by methyl on Saturday 14th of January 2012 11:18:34 AM
Old 01-14-2012
Quote:
I have a string like

Code:
root=/dev/sda3 noacpi foo "Baz mumble"
Sorry to be a pedant, or just plain thick! My question in post #10 still applies, but I'll rephrase it.
How did we arrive at the situation in post #1. i.e. What code, parameters or whatever produced or defined "root". I can achieve the assignment with backslashes but I just wondered whether is a free-standing command, a line from an parameter file or just (as I now suspect) a visual representation of what is in the environment variable without any syntax intended.

I have had a similar problem when writing a script to search thousands of alien scripts written to no particular standard. It was important that the search process never executed arbitary code.

Last edited by methyl; 01-14-2012 at 12:24 PM..
 

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