I have an application which I am integrating with that accepts the password via a CLI. I am running in to issues with passwords that contain special characters. I tried to escape them all, but I ran in to an issue where I cannot escape the characters
'
[
]
My attempt is as follows:
If I add [ or ] it obviously breaks my sed logic.
If I add ' it obviously causes errors in sed as it ruins the sed format and the unexpected ' later (which should remain)
If this is not possible, I will tell the client, all characters are acceptable, but generate passwords without '[ or ].
I wonder.... maybe I escape EVERY SINGLE Character? I'd have to test the app... and still not sure how I can do that with sed properly? Is that the solution... not sure.
Please let me know if you can help.
Thank you!
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