Re: Bug#496429: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

[Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org>]

[Neil Williams]
> $ pilot-qof -x data.xml --invoice-city -t 2006-11-08 | dfxml-invoice - \
>  | zenity --text-info --title="2006-11-08" -
> 
> 2. Unnecessarily complicated for documentation (the need for '\' is,
> IMHO, an indication that the command is too long).

Not to disagree with your real thesis, but there is no need for \ here.

  $ pilot-qof -x data.xml --invoice-city -t 2006-11-08 |
    dfxml-invoice - | zenity --text-info --title="2006-11-08" -

Peter, on behalf of the Society for the Preservation of Useful Details
of Shell Syntax
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