Error on clipdel with special characters

[ghost]

I called clipdel -d 'e.g.passX\(sghs' for try to delete a password with special characters (generated with pass) I get the next error:

sed: -e expression #1, char 36: Unmatched ) or \)
sed: -e expression #1, char 36: Unmatched ) or \)
sed: -e expression #1, char 36: Unmatched ) or \)

I tried to escape the password but it not worked

    value=
    clipdel -d $(printf '%q' "$(xsel -b)")

[cdown]

Yeah, this is a bug due to the fact we use sed without special escaping of the inputs. I'll look at fixing it for the next release.

[cdown]

Oh wait, it's not a bug. By contract -d takes a BRE regex :-)

Try not escaping (.

[ghost]

@cdown 'e.g.passX\(sghs' is password without escaping, so I think one option is be able to call without -d or with another option to delete a literal string without regex

[cdown]

There's no need to escape anything. ( in BRE means (.

[ghost]

@cdown \ and ( are part of the password

current data in the clipboard

when I try to delete one entry with random characters like a password

[cdown]

Ok, so you need to escape it then to make it a valid BRE. It should be \\(.

It's possible to add a non-regex mode, but I don't really use clipdel, so it would be a community addition.

[cdown]

Closing for now without prejudice, since I think that we came to an agreement that it's intended behaviour. However, I agree with you that a "literal" mode that doesn't take a regex would also be a nice addition. :-)