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I mean escaping as in "the scanned data's FF number is then sent to a shell shell script for crediting the flight". And since it's expected that the data is just 8 alphanumeric chars, it doesn't handle anything else well.

You're right there's ways to do this properly, of course. But in practise, with huge systems, people end up hooking in things here and there and forget at some point eh?




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