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On 7/25/14, Abigail <abigail@abigail.be> wrote: > > Considering that with one liners, you're typically in full control of > what you type, including the command line arguments, I'm not sure > whether just changing -n and -p, robbing the user of options, is the > right way. > > > When was the last time you couldn't write a -n/-p one liner, because > one of the arguments you wanted to give would trigger magic open, and > you didn't want that to happen? It's actually more dangerous and has sharper edges than may be initially considered. Putting on my security hat: shell $ touch 'report6; ls -l * |' shell $ perl -pe '' report* Even with one liners, the user isn't necessarily aware of the arguments that will be processed.Thread Previous | Thread Next