Re: [BUG REPORT] WML 2.0.5, Solaris2.6

[Denis Barbier <nospam@thanx>]

On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 08:01:40AM +0200, duenki@isi.ee.ethz.ch wrote:

> Package: WML 2.0.5
> Operating System: Solaris2.6
> 
> Problem Description:
> | Hi,
> | 
> | I think that wmk is broken, at least for me. I get
> | the following error:
> | 
> | wml -n -oLANG_VAR:computing.var -o(ALL-LANG_*)+LANG_EN:computing.en.html -o(ALL-LANG_*)+LANG_DE:computing.de.html computing.wml
> | sh: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected
> | ** WMk:Break: Error in WML (rc=512)
[...]

You are right, and this is very annoying.
If i find time tonight, i will check why this bug has been introduced
and if the patch below is safe. A new release will follow shortly.

--- wmk.src	2000/10/02 08:18:15	1.31
+++ wmk.src	2000/10/26 16:07:03
@@ -199,9 +199,10 @@
 #   when shell metachars exists
 sub quotearg {
     my ($arg) = @_;
-    if ($arg !~ m|^'.*'$|) {
-        if ($arg =~ m|[\$"`]|) {
-            $arg =~ s|([\$"`])|\\$1|sg;
+    if ($arg !~ m|^'.*'$| and $arg !~ m|^".*"$|) {
+        if ($arg =~ m|[\[\]()!*?&"']|) {
+            $arg =~ s|'|\\'|sg;
+            $arg = "'".$arg."'";
         }
     }
     return $arg;

-- 
Denis Barbier
WML Maintainer
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