Re: [Jython-dev] kevin's environ module

[Phil S. <phi...@ho...>]

This reminds me of the bad 'ol days of shell scripting...
escaping special characters was always a black art.

chuck clark wrote:
> 
> Hmm...Kevin actually had 'sh -c "%s"' in the original code
> I switched to '%s' and everything worked.  And then I tried
> 'sh -c %s' and that worked.  I was curious and tried
> "sh -c '%s'" but that failed as well.  So it definitely has something
> to do with the quotes.  In the bash man page I found the following:
> 
>        Shell builtin commands return a status of 0 (true) if suc­
>        cessful,  and  non-zero  (false)  if an error occurs while
>        they execute.  All builtins return an exit status of 2  to
>        indicate incorrect usage.
> 
> So I'm guessing maybe the shell is having issues quoting?  I get a
> return code of 2 whether I use a builtin or call a command.
> 
> chuck
>