Re: [hylafax-users] textfmt picky about filenames?

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:19:08AM -0700, Liem Bahneman wrote:
> When I send a _postscript_ file with carat's in the file name through 
> sendfax, when it calls textfmt, it tries to break the filename apart on 
> the carats (and according to truss, exec 'foo'). 
> 
> sendfax -D -m -k "now +72 hours" -n -f 'user@host.com' -d '55512123' "foo^bar"
>  sh: foo: not found
>  sh: bar: cannot open 
> Error converting data; command was "/opt/hylafax/sbin/textfmt -B -f 
> Courier-Bold  -p 11 -s default >/tmp//sndfaxQ_aaL5 < foo^bar"
> 
> However, when I run the textfmt command as displayed, it works. So 
> somewhere in the handoff between sendfax and textfmt, the carat is 
> throwing a wrench in. Truss says its trying to exec 'bar' and open() 
> 'foo':

Looks like you're using a shell old enough that ^ is a synonym for |,
and it has, I think, the highest parsing priority.  Why it's going inside
the quotes, I don't know...

Oh:  Look on that last line; sendfax is shelling to textfmt...

Cheers,
-- jra

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