On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 11:12:05PM -0700, Didier C wrote:
> Hi!
> I was wondering if we can pass some arguments to system("cmdline")?
>
> E.g in Perl, we can do something like:
>
> $dir="/home/cypher";
>
> system("ls $dir");
>
> which would instruct Perl to do an "ls /home/cypher"
>
> But in python, doing something like
>
> dir="/home/cypher"
> system("ls dir")
system("ls %(dir)s" % locals())
system("ls %s" % dir)
system("ls %(name)s" % dict(name=dir)
But you should consider if you really really want to do this.
What happens when " " in dir?
What happens when dir == "; rm -Rf /"
Andreas
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