IPv6 troubles

[Bill Eldridge]

Marc ARIBERTI wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2002, Samuel Hocevar wrote:
> >    Make sure that [ and ] aren't metacharacters for your shell, for
> > instance by putting them into single quotes: vlc 'udp:[0...]'
> That's it, it works ! (my IPv6 routing table was also a bit dirty)
> 
> for vlc-devel :
> Shouldn't the developers change the command line syntax for
> IPv6 due to this issue ?
> 
> for example : udp6:<1242::02> or another character which will never
> be escape characters for any shell.

If the correct IPv6 format is [fec0::201:2ff:fedc:463]
it would be strange to demand different delimiters.
If you can use:

    udp6:"fec0::...."

perhaps that would be clearer, but overall just making
a note for IPv6 users to use single or double quotes
around the whole address seems pretty straightforward,
and relatively obvious for people used to running
command-lines with potential shell characters.

(I say "relatively", though I would
have probably scratched my head at how to do this at
first as well - thus the documentation note/-h mention
for IPv6.

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> Marc ARIBERTI
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