We have to jump through multiple hoops in shell scripts to ensure that our scripts handle special characters such as space, hyphen etc. properly. A number of security vulnerabilities exist because of mishandling of these characters.
However, these special characters, while important for GUI are not a necessity
for command line. The idea of this library is to provide a FUSE filesystem that
mounts a given directory under a mount point such that all the special
characters are URL encoded. We include - in the list of characters that are
encoded. Further, we also remove . and .. from the directory listing.
With this, the shell scripts can assume that none of the directory or file names contain special characters.
The usage is as follows:
python3 -m pip install fusepy
python3 -m safemount ./mydir ./mntpoint
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