A simple shell escape package for JavaScript. Use it to escape user-controlled inputs to shell commands to prevent shell injection.
Please read the full documentation for more information.
Below is a basic example of how to use Shescape. In this example spawn is
used to invoke a shell command and shescape.escapeAll is used to escape any
dangerous character in any of the arguments specified by the array
userInput.
const cp = require("child_process");
const shescape = require("shescape");
cp.spawn("command", shescape.escapeAll(userInput), options);
[1.1.2] - 2021-01-07
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simple shell escape library
The npm package shescape receives a total of 1,370 weekly downloads. As such, shescape popularity was classified as popular.
We found that shescape demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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