Escaping a string when passing through multiple tools

CandleTiger@programming.dev · 9 months

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa No!!! My data! Please stop doing that!

monkeyman512@lemmy.world · 9 months

I think I have seen a few CLI tools that put the input between an open and close arg like this “-arg1 random passthrough string -arg1-”

ulterno@programming.dev · 9 months

Now say the CLI tool is passed a string that has “-arg1-” inside it.

deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 9 months

[[[[[["TCL/TK has \\\\\\\\\\"entered\\\\\\\\\\" the chat."]]]]]]

Hupf@feddit.org · 9 months

https://xkcd.com/297/

leds@feddit.dk · 9 months

Oh you mean a pipiline defined in yaml, running in poweshell to execute a command in docker on windows?

bobzrkr@sh.itjust.works · 9 months

I had to do this yesterday. First I tried ". Then \", finally \" worked. Which doesn’t make sense. But I’m not looking for answers, I’ve got more Jira tickets this sprint.

bobzrkr@sh.itjust.works · 9 months

LOL even here it gets me . I tried slash quote, slash slash slash quote, finally slash slash quote worked.

someacnt@sh.itjust.works · 9 months

You mean \", \\", and \\\" ?

Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world · 9 months

I added an expression support to my Automod for Lemmy which can have subexpressions as parameters etc., pretty cool to work with.

Except every subexpression needs 2^n-1 slashes where n is the depth level. Fun times writing the expressions.

SpikesOtherDog@ani.social · 9 months

Run a PowerShell script from batch, but call it using start-process as administrator, using a variable for the path and also pass parameters to the script.