Open jettdc opened 11 months ago
yargs-parser does not support escaping embedded quotes, but it does support nesting quotes. So you can have "
inside '
quotes.
I am not sure what quoting you would want for the slash and newline, but this quoting at least reads everything after the -d
as the option value:
import parser from 'yargs-parser'
const curl = `curl -X POST "https://api.example.com/data" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"key": "This string has an escaped backslash: \\\\ and a newline: \\\\n"}'`;
const argv = parser(curl);
console.log(argv);
% node index.mjs
{
_: [ 'curl', '"https://api.example.com/data"' ],
X: 'POST',
H: 'Content-Type: application/json',
d: '{"key": "This string has an escaped backslash: \\\\ and a newline: \\\\n"}'
}
Unfortunately these strings are coming from user input, and since the mentioned curl command is a valid curl command/bash/input, I need to be able to support it
Is there a reason it doesn't support escaping embedded quotes?
If you can access the command after it is parsed by the shell into separate arguments then you avoid the problem that different shells/platforms and yargs split up command-line into arguments in different ways. (I realise this may not be possible in your use case, but I thought worth mentioning as a general approach.)
Related: #300 #385
Is there a reason it doesn't support escaping embedded quotes?
I suspect just hasn't come up enough.
A package I have used for some quoting work is: https://www.npmjs.com/package/shell-quote
trying to parse the string:
Which is equivalent to the valid curl command
But when I parse it, my args array looks like the following:
Am I missing something or is this a bug?