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Escaping a string when passing through multiple tools (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by cm0002@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] monkeyman512@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

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-"

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

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

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