On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 01:39:11PM -0600, Andrew McNabb wrote:
> "cat %s" % filename
> 
> then your program would break if filename contained spaces.

   It'd break even worse if the filename contains ';' or any other
command-separated character (&&, ||, etc.)

Oleg.
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     Oleg Broytmann            http://phd.pp.ru/            [EMAIL PROTECTED]
           Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.
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