On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, West, William M wrote:
One way to do this -- probably not a good one -- might be
system("echo $xml | myprogamname")
but if there's anything in the XML that the shell finds interesting, this could fail in all kinds of spectacular ways.
#try this: system("echo \'$xml\' | myprogamname") ^^^^^^^^ \---- i haven't tried it, but it should keep the shell from interpolating the xml data
But what happens if the XML has an embedded apostrophe ?
$ echo '<show>Monty Python's Flying Circus</show>'
>
^COr some other magical character ?
$ echo '<homer>D'oh!</homer>'
-bash: !: event not found
$D'oh!
There's all kinds of edge cases that would have to be dealt with here. I really think that putting the XML directly into a command line is doomed to failure; putting it in a temp file should be much more robust.
-- Chris Devers
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