Bug#319169: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#319169: logcheck: chokes on log files whose names contain spaces

[maximilian attems]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Jan Suchy wrote:

> The logcheck script fails to protect the file names with quotes, e.g. [ -f $file ]

okay the example your cite seems taken from logoutput(), which is called:
logoutput "$file"
saw more unprotected usage of $dir on a quick scan.

what's the special trouble you have?
especially please educate me on the needed use of quotes?

thanks for your feedback.

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maks