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Quote String: escape

Escape or unescape input

Description

escape takes input from either stdin or the parameters and returns the same data, escaped.

!escape does the same process in reverse, where it takes escaped data and returns its unescaped counterpart.

Usage

Escape

<stdin> -> escape -> <stdout>

escape string to escape -> <stdout>

Unescape

<stdin> -> !escape -> <stdout>

!escape string to unescape -> <stdout>

Examples

Escape

» out (multi
» line
» string) -> escape
"multi\nline\nstring\n" 

Synonyms

• escape
• !escape

See Also

• Escape Command Line String: esccli: Escapes an array so output is valid shell code
• Escape HTML: eschtml: Encode or decodes text for HTML
• Escape URL: escurl: Encode or decodes text for the URL

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This document was generated from builtins/core/escape/escape_doc.yaml.