[SOLVED] Short way to escape HTML in Bash?

Issue

The box has no Ruby/Python/Perl etc.

Only bash, sed, and awk.

A way is to replace chars by map, but it becomes tedious.

Perhaps some built-in functionality i'm not aware of?

Solution

Escaping HTML really just involves replacing three characters: <, >, and &. For extra points, you can also replace " and '. So, it's not a long sed script:

sed 's/&/\&amp;/g; s/</\&lt;/g; s/>/\&gt;/g; s/"/\&quot;/g; s/'"'"'/\&#39;/g'

Answered By - ruakh

Answer Checked By - David Goodson (WPSolving Volunteer)