NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

OPTIONS

-s, --single-quotes

Escape any occurrences of ' in the input string as \', so that the output can be used in a JavaScript string literal wrapped in single quotes.

-d, --double-quotes

Escape any occurrences of " in the input string as \", so that the output can be used in a JavaScript string literal wrapped in double quotes.

-w, --wrap

Make sure the output is a valid JavaScript string literal wrapped in quotes. The type of quotes can be specified using the -s | --single-quotes or -d | --double-quotes settings.

-6, --es6

Escape any astral Unicode symbols using ECMAScript 6 Unicode code point escape sequences.

-e, --escape-everything

Escape all the symbols in the output, even printable ASCII symbols.

-j, --json

Make sure the output is valid JSON. Hexadecimal character escape sequences and the \v or \0 escape sequences will not be used. Setting this flag enables the -d | --double-quotes and -w | --wrap settings.

-o, --object

Treat the input as a JavaScript object rather than a string. Accepted values are flat arrays containing only string values, and flat objects containing only string values.

-p, --pretty

Pretty-print the output for objects, using whitespace to make it more readable. Setting this flag enables the

-l, --lowercase-hex

Use lowercase for alphabetical hexadecimal digits in escape sequences. -o | --object setting.

-v, --version

Print jsesc's version.

-h, --help

Show the help screen.

EXIT STATUS

0

jsesc successfully escaped the given string and printed the result.

1

jsesc wasn't instructed to escape anything (for example, the --help flag was set); or, an error occurred.

EXAMPLES

jsesc 'foo bar baz'

Print an escaped version of the given string.

echo 'foo bar baz' | jsesc

Print an escaped version of the string that gets piped in.

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