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.
import cp from "child_process";
import * as shescape from "shescape";
cp.spawn("command", shescape.escapeAll(userInput), options);
[1.2.1] - 2021-04-24
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The npm package shescape receives a total of 2,630 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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