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Unable to enter any of the following characters in text_input prompt. ` \ ; ' ~ # % & ( ) | : " < >

Open tasker204 opened this issue 7 years ago • 1 comments

Unable to enter any of the following characters in text_input prompt. ` \ ; ' ~ # % & ( ) | : " < >

tasker204 avatar May 10 '18 19:05 tasker204

Hi @tasker204, unfortunately this was intended by design, since I wanted to prevent unwanted bash expansion from breaking the shell script when reading the string to a variable. I don't see any workaround for this without using hacks around bash's eval :(

kahkhang avatar May 11 '18 01:05 kahkhang