Re: quote interpretation via vars without eval

[Greg Wooledge]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 04:55:25PM -0300, Marco Ippolito wrote:
> Interestingly, I checked and Debian Jessie (currently oldoldstable) uses
> package coreutils_8.23-4 which does have a < 2016 ls.
> 
> Now, Long Term Support ended for it (i.e. voluntary security support for it
> beyond oldstable) in mid 2020 so maybe a system with such an old coreutils
> installation, likely not getting any security updates unless they are
> applied in-house or through an interest group, perhaps has a bigger problem,
> but I'd be curious to know how many production systems out there are kept
> this backwards.

Obviously you can never get a reliable count, but I'd imagine "quite a
lot".  Remember, CentOS/RHEL has an even longer support cycle, and a lot
of systems are kept running past EOL, especially if they're not on the
public Internet.