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Carl M. Fongheiser cmf at obie.cis.pitt.edu
Tue Sep 5 11:28:56 AEST 1989


In article <9136 at elsie.UUCP> ado at elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) writes:
>> Use only trusted applications which filter out the nasty sequences.  
>
>Don't "ls /tmp" since an evil user might give a file an evil name?

That's right!  Everybody knows the only safe way to "ls" /tmp is to pipe
it through "cat -v" :-)

				Carl Fongheiser
				cmf at unix.cis.pitt.edu



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