Re: [perl #115708] Do a better job of escaping components of ldlibpthfor the shell

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Eric Brine <ikegami@adaelis.com> wrote:
> Reopened ticket. Will get a patch out shortly. If you want, you can run the
> following to make sure it'll work:
>
> quote() { case "$1" in '') echo "''" ;; *)  echo "$1" | sed
> 's/\([^a-zA-Z0-9.:_\-\/]\)/\\\1/g' ;; esac; }
> x=\(bar\)
> mkdir \(foo\)
> cd \(foo\)
> pwd="`pwd`"
> ldlibpth="x=` quote "$pwd" `:` quote "$x" `"
> echo "$ldlibpth"
>
> Should give:
>
> x=/home/ikegami/\(foo\):\(bar\)

I've verified that this does give the expected result with the Solaris
/bin/sh.  Thanks!

--Gisle

• [perl #115708] Do a better job of escaping components of ldlibpth for the shell by Father Chrysostomos via RT
• Re: [perl #115708] Do a better job of escaping components of ldlibpthfor the shell by Gisle Aas
• Re: [perl #115708] Do a better job of escaping components of ldlibpthfor the shell by Eric Brine
• Re: [perl #115708] Do a better job of escaping components of ldlibpthfor the shell by Gisle Aas
• Re: [perl #115708] Do a better job of escaping components of ldlibpthfor the shell by Eric Brine
• [perl #115708] Do a better job of escaping components of ldlibpth for the shell by Eric Brine