escape(1) Mail Avenger 0.8.4 escape(1)NAMEescape - escape shell special characters in a string
SYNOPSISescape string
DESCRIPTIONescape prepends a "\" character to all shell special characters in
string, making it safe to compose a shell command with the result.
EXAMPLES
The following is a contrived example showing how one can
unintentionally end up executing the contents of a string:
$ var='; echo gotcha!'
$ eval echo hi $var
hi
gotcha!
$
Using escape, one can avoid executing the contents of $var:
$ eval echo hi `escape "$var"`
hi ; echo gotcha!
$
A less contrived example is passing arguments to Mail Avenger bodytest
commands containing possibly unsafe environment variables. For
example, you might write a hypothetical reject_bcc script to reject
mail not explicitly addressed to the recipient:
#!/bin/sh
formail -x to -x cc -x resent-to -x resent-cc \
| fgrep "$1" > /dev/null \
&& exit 0
echo "<$1>.. address does not accept blind carbon copies"
exit 100
To invoke this script, passing it the recipient address as an argument,
you would need to put the following in your Mail Avenger rcpt script:
bodytest reject_bcc `escape "$RECIPIENT"`
SEE ALSOavenger(1),
The Mail Avenger home page: <http://www.mailavenger.org/>.
BUGSescape is designed for the Bourne shell, which is what Mail Avenger
scripts use. escape might or might not work with other shells.
AUTHOR
David Mazieres
Mail Avenger 0.8.4 2013-07-13 escape(1)
