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Re: NSTask and piped commands
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Re: NSTask and piped commands


  • Subject: Re: NSTask and piped commands
  • From: Alastair Houghton <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 21:19:56 +0100

On 18 May 2010, at 20:48, Stephen J. Butler wrote:

> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 2:33 PM, appledev <email@hidden> wrote:
>> I dont want to use a call to a bash script, because of sneaking in bad commands.
>> But how should I handle this?
>
> That's only a real concern when you put user supplied data into the
> command you're running. But I don't see you doing that here... you're
> just using bash to parse the otput of some unix command.

Well, you might have to worry about some environment variables also.  IFS could be an issue, for instance.  Best not to use the shell from code if you can help it.

Kind regards,

Alastair.

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