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Re: How to use $"msgid"?
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: How to use $"msgid"? |
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Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:30:37 -0400 |
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On 3/23/21 11:17 PM, Jesse Hathaway wrote:
i.e. bash substitutes the translation then performs double quoted
string expansions, so if the translator has injected bash code, such
as a command substitution into the translated message, it will be
executed.
$"..." strings are double-quoted strings that happen to be subject to
translation, just like $'...' strings are single-quoted strings that
have certain escape sequences expanded.
The question is whether or not you trust your translator. This is for
a script you wrote, with strings you created.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/