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On Wed Jun 29 06:34:56 2011, eda@waniasset.com wrote: > Nicholas Clark <nick <at> ccl4.org> writes: > > >[Sadly, I can't find reference to the far more "fun" bug, whereby at > >csh start time, the current directory's name could end up being > subject to > >string evaluation, *with interpolation*, meaning that a nicely > crafted > >directory pathname could exploit any setuid script that happened to > call > >glob. > > Another bug caused by csh is that globbing doesn't work with filenames > containing > a space. That particular misfeature was preserved when the code was > moved into > perl itself. > You can use quotation marks in that case: <"* copy.txt">. Due to a bug (which I’m fixing), the quotation marks will be interpreted literally if there are no spaces, or if the only spaces are at the beginning and end of the pattern.Thread Next