02-24-2020
Better have it in normal (double) quotes: "$n.pdf"
These let the shell expand the variable but deny other expansions.
Also have "$n.txt" (to deny other expansions).
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WORDEXP(3) BSD Library Functions Manual WORDEXP(3)
NAME
wordexp -- perform shell-style word expansions
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <wordexp.h>
int
wordexp(const char * restrict words, wordexp_t * restrict we, int flags);
void
wordfree(wordexp_t *we);
DESCRIPTION
The wordexp() function performs shell-style word expansion on words and places the list of words into the we_wordv member of we, and the num-
ber of words into we_wordc.
The flags argument is the bitwise inclusive OR of any of the following constants:
WRDE_APPEND Append the words to those generated by a previous call to wordexp().
WRDE_DOOFFS As many NULL pointers as are specified by the we_offs member of we are added to the front of we_wordv.
WRDE_NOCMD Disallow command substitution in words. See the note in BUGS before using this.
WRDE_REUSE The we argument was passed to a previous successful call to wordexp() but has not been passed to wordfree(). The implementa-
tion may reuse the space allocated to it.
WRDE_SHOWERR Do not redirect shell error messages to /dev/null.
WRDE_UNDEF Report error on an attempt to expand an undefined shell variable.
The wordexp_t structure is defined in <wordexp.h> as:
typedef struct {
size_t we_wordc; /* count of words matched */
char **we_wordv; /* pointer to list of words */
size_t we_offs; /* slots to reserve in we_wordv */
} wordexp_t;
The wordfree() function frees the memory allocated by wordexp().
IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
The wordexp() function is implemented as a wrapper around the undocumented wordexp shell built-in command.
RETURN VALUES
The wordexp() function returns zero if successful, otherwise it returns one of the following error codes:
WRDE_BADCHAR The words argument contains one of the following unquoted characters: <newline>, '|', '&', ';', '<', '>', '(', ')', '{', '}'.
WRDE_BADVAL An attempt was made to expand an undefined shell variable and WRDE_UNDEF is set in flags.
WRDE_CMDSUB An attempt was made to use command substitution and WRDE_NOCMD is set in flags.
WRDE_NOSPACE Not enough memory to store the result.
WRDE_SYNTAX Shell syntax error in words.
The wordfree() function returns no value.
ENVIRONMENT
IFS Field separator.
EXAMPLES
Invoke the editor on all .c files in the current directory and /etc/motd (error checking omitted):
wordexp_t we;
wordexp("${EDITOR:-vi} *.c /etc/motd", &we, 0);
execvp(we.we_wordv[0], we.we_wordv);
DIAGNOSTICS
Diagnostic messages from the shell are written to the standard error output if WRDE_SHOWERR is set in flags.
SEE ALSO
sh(1), fnmatch(3), glob(3), popen(3), system(3)
STANDARDS
The wordexp() and wordfree() functions conform to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'').
BUGS
Do not pass untrusted user data to wordexp(), regardless of whether the WRDE_NOCMD flag is set. The wordexp() function attempts to detect
input that would cause commands to be executed before passing it to the shell but it does not use the same parser so it may be fooled.
The current wordexp() implementation does not recognize multibyte characters, since the shell (which it invokes to perform expansions) does
not.
BSD
July 29, 2004 BSD