[ale] C question

[Robert L. Harris]

My main goal is to make sure someone doesn't run this command and pass it
somethign like :     "15361; rm -rf ~/*"
I will need another version where XXXXX can be any alpha-numeric character
too but the main concern is the moron doing something stupid.

Robert



On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net> wrote:

> 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.
> On May 22, 2014 6:17 PM, "Robert L. Harris" <robert.l.harris at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Anyone have a very simple C program source that given a command of :
>>
>> ./Validate XXXXX
>>
>>
>> it will verify that XXXXX is a 5 digit integer and then execute
>>
>> system( "/bin/touch XXXXX");
>>
>>
>>
>> There's much more to it but I'm hung up on this.  Unfortunately I'm not a
>> C person.
>>
>> Robert
>>
>>
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