Re: Directory name problem...

Khimenko Victor (khim@sch57.msk.ru)
Mon, 26 Oct 1998 08:57:17 +0300 (MSK)


MW> To say that bash hides all the meta characters, is still making a
MW> brash assumption, though. It remains possible, although possibly difficult,
MW> to set up the correct combinations of meta characters and quotes to execute
MW> user arbitrary commands or scripts...

Yes. You are correct. It's possible and not so difficult :-(( I'm completely
forgot about this trick with -exec ... And of course bash will not hide
metacharacters; bash will simple not try to interpret them by itself but
second copy of bash could... Yes, shame, shame...

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