Changeset 0e23fdb for fedkit

Timestamp:

Sep 17, 2007 6:45:08 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

Ted Faber <faber@…>

Branches:

axis_example, compt_changes, info-ops, master, version-1.30, version-2.00, version-3.01, version-3.02

Children:

a835df7

Parents:

cd3eceb

Message:

Cover my sin of using a shell glob. /bin/csh treats this badly and an explicit
call to /bin/sh and some gross quoting is in order.

File:

• fedkit/splitter.pl (modified) (1 diff)

fedkit/splitter.pl

@@ -155 +155 @@
     # Clear out any old experiment data; if not deleted, copies over it by
     # different users will fail.
-    &ssh_cmd($user, $host, "/bin/rm -rf $proj_dir/*") || return 0;
+    # (O /bin/csh, how evil thou art.  The -c and the escaped single quotes
+    # force the /bin/sh interpretation of the trailing * (which we need to keep
+    # tmp around))  Again, this needs to be done more properly once we have a
+    # non-ssh interface here.)
+    &ssh_cmd($user, $host, "/bin/sh -c \\'/bin/rm -rf $proj_dir/*\\'") || 
+        return 0;
     # Remote experiment is active.  Modify it.
     if ($state eq "active") {