AUPARSE_SET_ESCAPE_MODE
Section: Linux Audit API (3)
Updated: July 2016
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NAME
auparse_set_escape_mode - choose escape method
SYNOPSIS
#include <auparse.h>
void auparse_set_escape_mode(auparse_state_t *au, auparse_esc_t mode);
DESCRIPTION
auparse_set_escape_mode is used to set the escaping method that will be used to output interpretted text. The choices for the mode variable are:
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- AUPARSE_ESC_RAW
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No escaping of any kind is done.
- AUPARSE_ESC_TTY
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Escape TTY control characters so that they are harmless to display on a terminal. When any control character is found, they are displayed as octal numbers. This is the default mode that the auparse library is initialized with.
- AUPARSE_ESC_SHELL
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Besides escaping control characters, this will escape some characters that can cause problems when used with shell scripting. Any escaped control characters are displayed as octal numbers. Other escaped characters are proceeded with a backslash. The additional characters it escapes are: " ' ` $ \
- AUPARSE_ESC_SHELL_QUOTE
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Similar to
AUPARSE_ESC_SHELL
but expands the character set to include shell operators. Any escaped control characters are displayed as octal numbers. Other escaped characters are proceeded with a backslash. The additional characters it escapes include: ; ' " ` # $ & * ? [ ] < > { } \
RETURN VALUE
None
SEE ALSO
auparse_interpret_field(3).
AUTHOR
Steve Grubb