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Escaping a string when passing through multiple tools (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 weeks ago by cm0002@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] CandleTiger@programming.dev 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] monkeyman512@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 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 2 weeks ago

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

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children) 
[[[[[["TCL/TK has \\\\\\\\\\"entered\\\\\\\\\\" the chat."]]]]]]
[–] leds 7 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] bobzrkr@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

[–] someacnt@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

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 1 points 2 weeks ago

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.