Re: details of the *-subscribe function

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On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 08:17:07PM -0700, Tres Melton wrote:
> and I've looked in there and can't see a "060" file.  It looks pretty
> standard to me.  However there is a line like this:
>=20
> |/usr/bin/ezmlm-get '/var/qmail/alias/Austrian' *Q3[%\,25B&0\60
>=20
> For some reason the '&' wasn't escaped upon creation of the list.
> Changing that to '*Q3[%\,25B\&0\60' fixed everything.  I'm still not
> sure why the '6' needs to be escaped and figure that the escaping script
> simply missed the right character needing escaping.

The 6 doesn't need escaping, however as you discovered the & did.
Since the file is being interpreted by the shell (via qmail), here's
what it effectively saw:

	/usr/bin/ezmlm-get '/var/qmail/alias/Austrian' *Q3[%\,25B &
	0\60

After backslash (quote) removal, you get:

	/usr/bin/ezmlm-get '/var/qmail/alias/Austrian' *Q3[%,25B &
	060

That's why it was trying to run "060" and not finding it.

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Bruce Guenter <[email protected]>                http://untroubled.org/

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