Jean-Pierre. Thanks for your quick response.
This code works fine except when I enter "*" for the file name, then the shell expands all of the current files within my current folder where I have the shell script running and returns that the name of the file is valid, which we know is not true. How can I overcome this? Thanks. Jerardfjay
Sorry. This code works fine. There were other checks which were causing the error and not this piece of code. Thank you.
Last edited by jerardfjay; 08-11-2005 at 12:56 PM..
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the user inputs names that have to be inside square brackets
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read answer
case $answer in
*) echo "OK"
;;
*) echo "This is a number"
read answer
;;
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This will most likely be a simple answer.
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if
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##########
#
# Project : personal script.
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# Author : Habitual
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if || ;
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$Input_filename=$ARGV;
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{
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exit;
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Discussion started by: Rashid Khan
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LEARN ABOUT MOJAVE
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)