Re: 'safe' printing to the terminal

[email protected] (Michiel Beijen) Mon, 11 May 2026 15:34:39 +0000

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On Monday, May 11th, 2026 at 12:29, "Ruud H.G. van Tol" via perl5-porters <[email protected]> wrote:

> printf has %q:
> 
>    $  printf -v var "%q" "^[[4mtest^[[m"
> 
>    $  echo $var
> 
>    $  eval "echo $var"

Yeah, that does what I want, but unfortunately this is not available in _perl_ printf, only in _bash_ printf.

Still looking for advise on how to print 'untrusted' input to a TTY in a way that is sane!

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Michiel