On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 4:07 AM, Piotr Sikora <[email protected]> wrote:
> $daemon_flags are sanitized using echo and tr, but the input isn't quoted,
> which makes it indistinguishable from echo's options. Effect of this is that
> when $daemon_flags starts with "-n" then this argument is lost in the
> process.
...
> -daemon_flags=$(echo ${daemon_flags} | tr -s "[:space:]")
> +daemon_flags=$(echo "${daemon_flags}" | tr -s "[:space:]")
Insufficient for the daemon_flags=-n case. To be completely safe, use printf:
daemon_flags=$(printf '%s\n' "${daemon_flags}" | tr -s "[:space:]")
Philip Guenther
