04-26-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by
MadeInGermany
IMHO the netgroup design is a bit crappy. The domain field is hardly usable - I have seen it empty in a dozen environments.
Usually the host field has FQDN and resolve order is files-dns-nis.
I agree, this is why I am looking to suggest improvements to it. My experience is the same as yours, it's always empty, and the host field sometimes is and sometimes is not fully qualified.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
cjcox
IMHO, don't change what you don't understand. Makes sense? Right?
Indeed, but I'm not asking you to change it.
Quote:
I think maybe it would be better to describe your RFC (why the secret?).
No secret. It's not an RFC, it's a collection of Internet Drafts, and currently an unpublished work in progress.
The intention is to replace NIS and RFC2307 with a more flexible and modular schema design.
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NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
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With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
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user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
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AVAILABILITY
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AUTHOR
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