Escape non-printable characters in user output #7831
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Replaces control characters and non-printable characters with escape sequences, in any fields that are printed by the CLI, which could have been user input. Output from `ipfs cat` is unchanged.
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| // EscNonPrint converts non-printable characters and backslash into Go | ||
| // escape sequences, if the given string contains any. |
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WDYT about adding a comment that we're trying to mimic the escape quoting style from https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Formatting-the-file-names.html?
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The link says essentially what the comment here says, so I don't think it adds much, other than it hints that we are doing this for the same reason. Also, I fear that people will misread that and think it means identical content.
Added brief description of purpose.
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Fair enough, if/when we add other escaping options we can add more descriptions
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Replaces control characters and non-printable characters with escape sequences, in any fields that are printed by the CLI, which could have been user input.
Output from
ipfs catis unchanged.