Quotation Ugliness

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Wed Nov 26 10:09:08 EST 2014


On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 2:07 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was searching the ol' memory banks, trying to figure out if there
> was some way to tell the internal 'echo' command to use slash instead
> of dash (maybe for DOS/Windows people??), in which case that would be
> parsed as "echo -- hello" and would indeed simply echo "hello".

Speaking of which, it's entirely possible to have a "-sudo" parameter
to a command (which would be "-s -u -d -o" to many programs), so
that's another way to get a false positive.

ChrisA



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