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Re: Patch proposal: Add --clean options to unbootstrap a project.


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: Patch proposal: Add --clean options to unbootstrap a project.
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:20:17 -0700
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Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:

>> +      xsystem ("rm -rf '$cache'")

This won't work well if $cache contains an apostrophe.

I realize this sort of problem is not new to the patch, but while
we're making changes in this area, why not fix it?  Either check for
and reject cache names containing apostrophe, or (better yet) support
the names.




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