On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 01:06:05AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 10:00:58PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > > Incoming from Luis Mochan: > > > I found a mistake in the extract_url.pl program: it doesn't escape > > > ampersands when present in the url, so when the command to actually > > > view the url is invoked, the shell gets confused. I made a quick fix > > > by substituting $command=~s/&/\\&/g before running command. > > > > Line 633? 634? So: > > > > # $command =~ s/%s/'$url'/g; > > $command=~s/&/\\&/g; > > > > I'm a perl guy, yet that's non-trivial here. Thx. :-) > > Are you sure that will work? You've just commented out a line of code. > (Just wondering what your patch would look like.)
Ahh, see it's included in a message by Luis Mochan in this thread. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X
