Programming

Hello,

i encountered this in perl but it might be command line related as well:
i am sending text as an argument to echo command on remote computer.
if the text has alphanumeric characters only, say 'hello world' all is well. if however text has metacharachters, e.g. 'hello | world' or even worse hello '|' world' i get : 'world' is not recognized as internal or external command.
tried many options but cannot find my way around this.
any ideas?

thnx

The text is being fed into a shell of some sort, and needs proper quoting to avoid messing up on special characters. Can we see your code?

i am using psexec (on windows) for remote activity:

Code:

my $text = "Hello | world";

my @args = (`psexec \\\\$IP -U $USER -P $PSWD C:\\Temp\\cmdutils\\echo $text > \\\\193.168.2.12\\$g\\LoadEXKBT\\WorkFiles\\SrcFileName_$table.txt `);
system(@args);

(without | or ' all is good )

thnx again

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ok, i solved the problem. using qq("'|'") made it work.

thanx