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From: dkeisen@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen)
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Subject: Re: PD ed required
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Date: 15 Sep 90 20:09:51 GMT
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In article <1990Sep14.012153.12702@ibmpcug.co.uk> dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell) writes:
>
>I need to have a secure version of it ie no shell escapes.
>

Something that has worked for us in similar cases is to use a shell script:

:
SHELL=
export SHELL
exec ed $*


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