[wellylug] cgi script question

[jumbophut]

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 12:55:03 +1200, Mark Signal wrote:
> Where the problem seems to occur is when the command is run
> from a directory that somewhere in its path there is a space as in "path/My
> Documents/rest of path" in which case it does squat. Interestingly if run
> from somewhere higher up the directory tree it correctly outputs all
> directories including those with spaces in their names.
> 
> I don't know how to pipe a "find -exec" command through sed so I tried:
> 
> for FILE in 'find `echo $DATADIR$HTTP_REFERER | cut -c 1-24,46-` -type f |
> sed 's/ /\\ /g'`';
>         do
>         ls $FIND  | awk 'sub("$", "<br>")'
> done
> 

If the webserver is sending back a path with a space in it, there is a
good chance it will encode it as '%20'.  If that's the case, you need
to convert it to '\ ' (backslash plus space).  Even if not, you will
probably find it helps to quote the string.

Something like this may do the trick:

myvar=$(echo $HTTP_REFERER | sed -e 's/%20/\\ /g')
find "$(echo $DATADIR$myvar | cut -c 1-24,46-)" -type -f -exec ls {} ';'

Hope that helps.   

(By the way, if you use $() rather than ``, you can nest expressions,
which makes for more bash fun :-)

-- 
Tony (echo 'spend!,pocket awide' | sed 'y/acdeikospntw!, /l at omcgtjuba.phi/')