<div dir="ltr">My main goal is to make sure someone doesn't run this command and pass it somethign like : "15361; rm -rf ~/*" <div>I will need another version where XXXXX can be any alpha-numeric character too but the main concern is the moron doing something stupid. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Robert</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Ed Cashin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ecashin@noserose.net" target="_blank">ecashin@noserose.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">I'm not at a keyboard now, but strtol could do it all if you provide a non-NULL end pointer. (That will make sense on reading the strtol man page.) Just subtract the end from the start and compare to 5,after specifying base ten. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On May 22, 2014 6:17 PM, "Robert L. Harris" <<a href="mailto:robert.l.harris@gmail.com" target="_blank">robert.l.harris@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">
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<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>Anyone have a very simple C program source that given a command of :<div><br></div><div>./Validate XXXXX</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>it will verify that XXXXX is a 5 digit integer and then execute </div>
<div><br></div><div>system( "/bin/touch XXXXX");</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>There's much more to it but I'm hung up on this. Unfortunately I'm not a C person.</div><div>
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