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- To: Bennet Yee <bsy@cs.ucsd.edu>
- Subject: Re: showpartial in metamail package (2.7-31)
- From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 17:02:29 +1000
- Message-id: <20000607170229.A23325@gondor.apana.org.au>
- In-reply-to: <200006070646.XAA21861@play.ucsd.edu>; from bsy@cs.ucsd.edu on Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 11:46:03PM -0700
- References: <200006070646.XAA21861@play.ucsd.edu>
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 11:46:03PM -0700, Bennet Yee wrote:
> showpartial fails because modern tr has backslash escapes, and gnu tr
> generates an error message when it sees the lone trailing backslash.
> it's easy to fix:
>
> # id=$(echo "$2" | tr -d \!\$\&\*\(\)\|\'\"\;\/\<\>\\ ) # orig
> id=$(echo "$2" | tr -d \!\$\&\*\(\)\|\'\"\;\/\<\>\\\\ ) # fix1 or
> # id=$(echo "$2" | tr -d '!$&*()|'\''";/<>\\' ) # fix2
I don't maintain metamail anymore. Please contact
metamail@packages.debian.org.
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