Re: shell script cgi

From: mlh (mlhat_private)
Date: Mon Nov 18 2002 - 02:02:07 PST

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c jones writes in part
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 > ua=`echo "$HTTP_USER_AGENT" | sed "s#\;##g"`
 >


One thing that is odd about this scrap of code is
why one would bother removing the ';' yet leave
all sorts of other character sequences that are equally
meaningful to the shell, for instance &, &&, |, || etc.
Also ^ for older shells.


Matt

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