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Correctly escape complex shell commands #480

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@smlx smlx commented Oct 18, 2024

Previously, complex shell commands were not escaped correctly which led to ssh commands like:

ssh [email protected] /bin/sh -c '( echo foo; echo bar; echo baz ) | tail -n2'

Returning an error like:

sh: syntax error: unexpected "("

This change implements shell escaping using the algorithm described in ponit 1. of this stack overflow answer to correctly handle complex ssh commands such as the one above.

smlx added 2 commits October 18, 2024 14:48
This uses a shellescape package which implements algorithm 1 described
in https://stackoverflow.com/a/20053121.

This algorithms is essentially: wrap in single quotes, escape any single
quotes.
@smlx smlx added the bug Something isn't working label Oct 18, 2024
@smlx smlx changed the title fix shell escape Correctly escape complex shell commands Oct 18, 2024
@smlx smlx marked this pull request as ready for review October 18, 2024 07:31
@smlx smlx merged commit 1c1557f into main Oct 18, 2024
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@smlx smlx deleted the fix-shell-escape branch October 18, 2024 07:31
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