On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 12:09:24PM -0500, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
> > I think I missed that "jq -r" output is still json-escaped. In that
> > light, is there any need for 3.7-style sanitization of json output?
> > We could still revert that early in 3.7.1; I doubt that this would
> > break things already.
>
> Actually, no, with "-r" not only are quotes removed, but also escaped
> forms are converted back to the underlying UTF-8 form, and control
> characters are output verbatim (as newlines, ESC, ...).
Example:
$ printf "%s\n" '"foo\nbar\nbaz"'
"foo\nbar\nbaz"
$ printf "%s\n" '"foo\nbar\nbaz"' | jq -r
foo
bar
baz
--
Viktor.
