5 Apr
2007
5 Apr
'07
4:42 a.m.
On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 23:27 -0700, Ted Gould wrote:
I was hoping that someone knew of a generic library to do this, it would seem like a feature other folks would need also.
The only reasonably safe/portable solution is to specify arguments explicitly using a function related to spawn() or exec(), rather than letting the shell do argument expansion. There are just too many variations to be able to reliably accommodate them all.
-mental