Re: Bash not escaping escape sequences in directory names

[Lawrence Velázquez]

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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