[Klug-general] [Gllug] Bash quote woes!

Benjamin Donnachie benjamin at py-soft.co.uk
Tue Jan 27 23:12:11 UTC 2009


2009/1/27 Joachim Gleissner <joe at ugh.de>:
> eval Xdialog --backtitle \"Proof of concept Hard Drive erase program\" --title \"HD Nuke\" \
> --item-help --separate-output --checklist \"Please select the drives you wish to nuke\n \nThis program will attempt to use the on-board security erase command. If not available, it will fall back to over-writing\" 30 61 6 \
> $connecteddrives

Perfect!!!  Thank you very much!

I must have been having a massive brain fart today as I've now
released that this is exactly what I did in a modular backup script I
wrote a few months ago...

Ben



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