From c3c5720e1e742e389fdfab3091b3c397e98ddade Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Baltakatei Sandoval <baltakatei@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2022 15:20:53 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] feat(user/regex-backslash.sh):Add script to escape regex
 chars

---
 user/regex-backslash.sh | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 user/regex-backslash.sh

diff --git a/user/regex-backslash.sh b/user/regex-backslash.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..3a850d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/user/regex-backslash.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Desc: Backslashes regex special characters
+# Usage: cat file.txt | regex-backslash.sh
+# Version: 0.0.1
+# Depends: sed (GNU sed) 4.8; GNU bash, version 5.1.16(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
+# Ref/Attrib: [1] TIL: Reading stdin to a BASH variable https://dev.to/jeremyckahn/til-reading-stdin-to-a-bash-variable-1kln
+
+STD_IN=$(</dev/stdin);
+
+printf "%s\n" "$STD_IN" | \
+    sed \
+        -e 's/\\/\\\\/g'  \
+        -e 's/\./\\./g'   \
+        -e 's/\+/\\+/g'   \
+        -e 's/\*/\\*/g'   \
+        -e 's/\?/\\?/g'   \
+        -e 's/\^/\\^/g'   \
+        -e 's/\$/\\$/g'   \
+        -e 's/(/\\(/g'    \
+        -e 's/)/\\)/g'    \
+        -e 's/\[/\\[/g'   \
+        -e 's/\]/\\]/g'   \
+        -e 's/{/\\{/g'    \
+        -e 's/}/\\}/g'    \
+        -e 's/|/\\|/g'    \
+        -- -;
+
+exit 0;
+
+# Author: Steven Baltakatei Sandoval
+# License: GPLv3+
-- 
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