Re: Bash not escaping escape sequences in directory names

[Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev]

maybe sub'ing them away, or making it print \\e instead \e

On Fri, Jan 21, 2022, 09:24 Lawrence Velázquez <vq@larryv.me> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 21, 2022, at 12:22 AM, L A Walsh wrote:
> > On 2022/01/18 22:31, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev wrote
> >>> Fix:
> >>> Haven't looked deeply into the bash internals but sanitizing the
> directory
> >>> name (along with other user-controlled substitutions in the prompt)
> should
> >>> work.
> >>>
> > Sanitizing? What's that?
> > Especially in a way that won't break existing legal usages?
>
> Curious what "existing legal usages" there are for allowing a change
> of working directory to result in arbitrary escape sequences being
> sent to your terminal.
>
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> vq
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