Re: Bash not escaping escape sequences in directory names

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/21/22 6:13 PM, Mike Jonkmans wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 03:29:47PM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > On 1/21/22 1:43 AM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> >
> > > Personally, I would be
> > > less than pleased if my whole terminal turned red just because I
> > > changed into a directory that happened to have a weird name.
> >
> > A mild annoyance at best, don't you think?
>
> Mostly an annoyance, but it has potential to be a security issue.

Highly unlikely. It would require an implausible scenario.


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