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Multi-Line input

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Description

Try to explainshell case. For a basic case statement to be made a one-liner by the user, it gets complicated:

case $yn in
    [Yy]* ) make install; break;;
    [Nn]* ) exit;;
    * ) exit;;
esac

Restricting the size of multi-line input would be needed as well. There will be people to paste in a full script.

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Research direction

Use the reported multi-line case statement as the reproduction example and trace how explainshell currently accepts and processes multi-line input. Define a safe input-size limit and confirm that supported multi-line commands are handled without accepting an unrestricted full script.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python, shell
Domain
cli
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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