Hi Ken,
for (s = cmd; *s; s++) {
if (*s != ' ' !isALPHA(*s)
strchr($*(){}[]'\;\\|?~`\n,*s)) {
Seems like that's a pretty good list; if we see one of those
characters, it gets sent to /bin/sh -c. Otherwise we split and do it
ourselves.
No `#'? How about just
On Tue, 29 May 2012 10:01:22 +0100, Ralph Corderoy said:
No `#'? How about just always send to the user's shell from the
password entry with a -c, as distinct from /bin/sh.
The problem is that some people (at least in the Elder TImes) would have
their login shell set to /bin/csh but they'd
On 29 May 2012 at 8:00, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:
On Tue, 29 May 2012 10:01:22 +0100, Ralph Corderoy said:
No `#'? How about just always send to the user's shell from the
password entry with a -c, as distinct from /bin/sh.
The problem is that some people (at least in the Elder
Hi Valdis,
No `#'? How about just always send to the user's shell from the
password entry with a -c, as distinct from /bin/sh.
The problem is that some people (at least in the Elder TImes) would
have their login shell set to /bin/csh but they'd want their scripty
things done in /bin/sh.
valdis.kletni...@vt.edu writes:
No `#'? How about just always send to the user's shell from the
password entry with a -c, as distinct from /bin/sh.
The problem is that some people (at least in the Elder TImes) would have
their login shell set to /bin/csh but they'd want their scripty things
In which case, couldn't they just do sh -c whatever as the thing that
would get passed to their login shell (i.e., csh)? It's a bit clumsy,
but it should work for the few people that are in that situation.
Why do you want to use the user shell exactly?
Yes, the user might be more familiar with
On 2012-05-29 2:46 PM, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
On 29 May 2012 at 8:00, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:
...
Does anybody still do that?
Why yes, my login shell is /bin/tcsh and I program in sh, bash, perl.
me too, give or take a conditional exec tcsh in my .cshrc file.
On 2012-05-29, at 7:19 PM, Paul Vixie wrote:
for that we have getenv('SHELL'), which is far more closely related to
the user's preferred command language than either their login shell or
the posix standard are going to be.
This conversation is cool. It reminds me of a phone call I had with
