Re: [Mondo-devel] Limitation on -S and -T arguments

[Bruno C. <Bru...@hp...>]

Carol Anne Ogdin said on Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 06:46:30AM -0700:

> You wrote:  "No. the quotes on the CLI are handled by the shell, not
> mondoarchive."  Don't you use the standard means of parameter recognition in
> mondoarchive?  When you've detected the -T parameter, doesn't your code then
> scoop up the next word as the directory name?  How would mondoarchive handle
> "... -T my temp ..."?  Wouldn't it see the "my" as the temporary directory
> name and then balk at the unknown "temp" on the command line?  (Sorry, I
> haven't had the time to download the source and inspect that code myself;
> I'm trying to get some systems built and shipped.)

Please try that:

touch toto
touch "titi"
touch 'tutu' 
touch "my toto"
touch "my tutu"
touch "'thathasquotes'"

from a shell.

Then you should understand better what happnes with quotes and shell.

Then show us your script as I can't discuss without content, sorry.

> Finally, you allude to "consequences" for having parentheses in filenames.
> Yes, if one issues some commands, like an explicit ls (e.g., ls xyz), one
> must "escape" the parent (e.g., ls Mondo\(Birch\)*), but what other
> consequences do you see?

I've already fixed crashes in mondo due to spaces. I generally advise
people to avoid using strange chars in their filename, it's a good
practice on Unix based systems.

> For the nonce, I have replaced the "(" with "-" to eliminate that as a
> source of any of the problems I experience.

Seems safer.

Bruno.
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