Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 7 Dec 1999 09:13:08 +0000 Received: (qmail 2165 invoked from network); 7 Dec 1999 09:13:08 -0000 Received: from mercury.sun.com (192.9.25.1) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 7 Dec 1999 09:13:08 -0000 Received: from France.Sun.COM ([129.157.188.1]) by mercury.Sun.COM (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA10402 for ; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 01:13:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from sunchorus.france.sun.com by France.Sun.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4-sd.fkk205) id KAA25023; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 10:13:02 +0100 Received: from ocarina.France.Sun.COM (ocarina [129.157.196.17]) by sunchorus.france.sun.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA17949 for ; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 10:13:01 +0100 (MET) Received: (from ydirson@localhost) by ocarina.France.Sun.COM (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) id KAA18206; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 10:13:00 +0100 (MET) From: Yann Dirson - LOGATIQUE MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14412.53148.260109.162005@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 10:13:00 +0100 (MET) To: submit@bugs.debian.org Subject: mgp: %filter does not allow quoting X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 8) "Bryce Canyon" XEmacs Lucid Package: mgp Version: 1.06a.19991129-1 %filter does not call the shell, as system() does in C. Thus "sh -c '...'" must be called to get shell functionalities (stderr redirection, pipe, etc.). However, mgp does not take ' into account when word-splitting %filter command-line. Hence the following ends with sh complaining about a syntax error: %filter "sh -c 'ls -l /'" %endfilter