Re: Decimal point or decimal comma

[Andreas Schwab]

address@hidden (Paul Jarc) writes:

> Pierre Gaston <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 2) eval can also be dangerous used like this, as it permits to pass
>> arbitrary code that will be executed by the script
>
> Oops, I missed some backslashes:
> #!/bin/sh
> "eval" "exec gawk --use-lc-numeric -f \"\$0\" \${1+\"address@hidden"}" && 0
> ... gawk code, which the shell won't see ...
>
> But now gawk complains about \$.  I'm not sure how to get around that.

How about this:

#!/bin/sh
"exec" "gawk" "--use-lc-numeric" "-f" "$0" "$@" && 0

It requires a sane shell (for "$@"), but otherwise should work better.

Andreas.

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