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Escaping a string when passing through multiple tools (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 weeks ago by cm0002@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] CandleTiger@programming.dev 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] monkeyman512@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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 1 points 3 weeks ago

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