On 8/24/12 2:59 PM, "R. Michael Weylandt" <michael.weyla...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Roebuck,Paul <proeb...@mdanderson.org>
> wrote:
>> [Redirected from R-Devel...]
>>
>> Not that I recall running across such, but does R (or CRAN package)
>> provide something equivalent to PHP's escapeshellcmd() function
>> to escape shell job control, wildcards, etc?
>
> I don't know PHP, but what does escapeshellcmd() provide over and
> above what system() / system2() do?
>
As before, it escapes job control, etc from the command string.
Assuming such existed in R, it would be used something like this:
R> system(escapeshellcmd(sprintf("somecmd %s", untrustedInput1)))
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