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diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/wordexp.3 b/lib/libc/gen/wordexp.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..895e90e --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/libc/gen/wordexp.3 @@ -0,0 +1,207 @@ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2002 Tim J. Robbins +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. 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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.Dd December 27, 2002 +.Dt WORDEXP 3 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm wordexp +.Nd "perform shell-style word expansions" +.Sh LIBRARY +.Lb libc +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In sys/types.h +.In wordexp.h +.Ft int +.Fo wordexp +.Fa "const char * restrict words" +.Fa "wordexp_t * restrict we" +.Fa "int flags" +.Fc +.Fo wordfree +.Fa "wordexp_t *we" +.Fc +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Fn wordexp +function performs shell-style word expansion on +.Fa words +and places the list of words into the +.Va we_wordv +member of +.Va we , +and the number of words into +.Va we_wordc . +.Pp +The +.Va flags +argument is the bitwise inclusive OR of any of the following constants: +.Bl -tag -width ".Dv WRDE_SHOWERR" +.It Dv WRDE_APPEND +Append the words to those generate by a previous call to +.Fn wordexp . +.It Dv WRDE_DOOFS +As many +.Dv NULL +pointers as are specified by the +.Va we_offs +member of +.Va we +are added to the front of +.Va we_wordv . +.It Dv WRDE_NOCMD +Disallow command substitution in +.Fa words . +See the note in +.Sx BUGS +before using this. +.It Dv WRDE_REUSE +The +.Va we +argument was passed to a previous successful call to +.Fn wordexp +but has not been passed to +.Fn wordfree . +The implementation may reuse the space allocated to it. +.It Dv WRDE_SHOWERR +Do not redirect shell error messages to +.Pa /dev/null . +.It Dv WRDE_UNDEF +Report error on an attempt to expand an undefined shell variable. +.El +.Pp +The +.Vt wordexp_t +structure is defined in +.Pa wordexp.h +as: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +typedef struct { + size_t we_wordc; /* count of words matched */ + char **we_wordv; /* pointer to list of words */ + size_t we_offs; /* slots to reserve in we_wordv */ +} wordexp_t; +.Ed +.Pp +The +.Fn wordfree +function frees the memory allocated by +.Fn wordexp . +.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES +The +.Fn wordexp +function is implemented as a wrapper around the undocumented +.Ic wordexp +shell built-in command. +.Sh RETURN VALUES +The +.Fn wordexp +function returns zero if successful, otherwise it returns one of the following +error codes: +.Bl -tag -width ".Dv WRDE_NOSPACE" +.It Dv WRDE_BADCHAR +The +.Fa words +argument contains one of the following unquoted characters: +<newline>, +.Ql | , +.Ql & , +.Ql \&; , +.Ql < , +.Ql > , +.Ql \&( , +.Ql \&) , +.Ql { , +.Ql } . +.It Dv WRDE_BADVAL +An attempt was made to expand an undefined shell variable and +.Dv WRDE_UNDEF +is set in +.Fa flags . +.It Dv WRDE_CMDSUB +An attempt was made to use command substitution and +.Dv WRDE_NOCMD +is set in +.Fa flags . +.It Dv WRDE_NOSPACE +Not enough memory to store the result. +.It Dv WRDE_SYNTAX +Shell syntax error in +.Fa words . +.El +.Pp +The +.Fn wordfree +function returns no value. +.Sh ENVIRONMENT +.Bl -tag -width ".Ev IFS" +.It Ev IFS +Field separator. +.El +.Sh EXAMPLES +Invoke the editor on all +.Dq Li \&.c +files in the current directory, +and +.Pa /etc/motd +(error checking omitted): +.Bd -literal -offset indent +wordexp_t we; + +wordexp("${EDITOR:-vi} *.c /etc/motd", &we, 0); +execvp(we->we_wordv[0], we->we_wordv); +.Ed +.Sh DIAGNOSTICS +Diagnostic messages from the shell are written to the standard error output +if +.Dv WRDE_SHOWERR +is set in +.Fa flags . +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr sh 1 , +.Xr fnmatch 3 , +.Xr glob 3 , +.Xr popen 3 , +.Xr system 3 +.Sh STANDARDS +The +.Fn wordexp +and +.Fn wordfree +functions conforms to +.St -p1003.1-2001 . +.Sh BUGS +Do not pass untrusted user data to +.Fn wordexp , +regardless of whether the +.Dv WRDE_NOCMD +flag is set. +The +.Fn wordexp +function attempts to detect input that would cause commands to be +executed before passing it to the shell +but it does not use the same parser so it may be fooled. |