I have the following procmail recipe, and it's not behaving as I want
when asteriks (*) are in the Subject line.
SENDER = `formail -rtzx To:`
SUBJECT = `formail -zxSubject:`
TODAY = `date "+%Y-%m-%d %T"`
:0 hwic: log.lock
| echo -e $TODAY "\t" $SENDER "\t" $SUBJECT >> log-addmsg
which produces this for 2 recent messages.
2002-01-15 03:23:14 james(_at_)aol(_dot_)com New newsletter
2002-01-15 03:26:14 sally(_at_)cs(_dot_)com backup backup.tar
backup.tar.0 backup.tar.1.gz backup.tar.2.gz backup.tar.3.gz bounces
cleanup_script log-addmsg log-addmsg.0 log-addmsg.1.gz
log-addmsg.2.gz log-addmsg.3.gz log-addmsg.4.gz log-addmsg.5.gz
log-forgery log-noarchive new-procmailrc procmailog procmailog.0
procmailog.1.gz procmailog.2.gz procmailog.3.gz Updated Schedule
backup
The Subject line of the second message was *** Updated Schedule ***,
and the asteriks got expanded to grab all the file names in the
directory.
I have tried echo -E and various combinations of single and double
quoting items without success. There are not a lot of options with
the echo command, and none of them will turn off this expansion.
I am using Bash 2.05a on a Debian Linux machine.
I suppose I could pre-process the Subject line, and append a
backslash (\) character before any asteriks. THat does solve the
problem.
Are there any other shell commands, other than echo, that work with
variables, that would work in this situation ?
Are there any fancy quoting syntaxs that can be applied to keep echo
from expanding the *.
Do I have to worry about other characters than *, and unexpected
things that might happen when they appear in the Subject line. I am
not expecting control characters to ever get into a Subject line.
Thanks for any clues.
mark
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