Small bug in Version 4.6.1 wrapper scripts

Lawrence Cahoon lawrence.cahoon at hotmail.com
Wed Nov 5 05:52:22 UTC 2008








Hi: 
  I found (and fixed, I think) a small bug in the mc-wrapper.sh file. As delivered, the 6th line of the script is:
    MC_PWD="`cat $MC_PWD_FILE`"
  but I think it should be:
    MC_PWD="cat `$MC_PWD_FILE`"

  I think the same kind of problem exists in the mc-wrapper.csh file on line 12:
    setenv MC_PWD "`cat $MC_PWD_FILE`"
  should probably be:
    setenv MC_PWD "cat `$MC_PWD_FILE`"

  This showed up because (on my machine) the output of "id" gives my Windows-XP user name  (enclosed in brackets, as I think it expects). When I "named" my laptop, I happened to give it my full name in firstName + " " + middleName + " " + lastName format. 

  So: As delivered, the script does not correctly handle the case where the MC_PWD_FILE environment variable contains an embedded space. 

  Following is the output from "mc -V".
GNU Midnight Commander 4.6.1
Virtual File System: tarfs, extfs, cpiofs, ftpfs, fish
With builtin Editor
Using the ncurses library
With optional subshell support
With mouse support on xterm
With support for X11 events


Regards
Lawrence Cahoon

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