Saturday, January 2, 2016

Re: (inconsistent?) behavior of environment variables

On 2016-01-02 16:06, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> I believe $UID is a shell variable (bash only?) which is not
> exported. Thus Vim doesn't get it. When using expand() the shell
> is used to expand the variable, thus then you do get it.

Okay, that makes sense...though does that then make expand() a
potential vector for shell exploits if it's being called with an
untrusted string?

-tim


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