added comment to action_to_target and made it also do hex encoded stuff to make stuff safer

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/filebrowser/action_to_target.sh b/filebrowser/action_to_target.sh
index 13380e6..2abbe58 100755
--- a/filebrowser/action_to_target.sh
+++ b/filebrowser/action_to_target.sh
@@ -1,2 +1,11 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-grep --line-buffered ^USER | stdbuf -oL cut '-d ' -f2- | grep --line-buffered ^action | stdbuf -oL cut '-d ' -f2-
+#this script gets the action lines that hackvr outputs and turns them into as normal of a string as possible
+#for the backend script to use.
+#so hex encoded strings need to be unencoded before they leave here.
+#the hex encoded strings don't have a newline at the end. we need to add one. see xargs printf "%s0a"
+grep --line-buffered ^USER \
+  | stdbuf -oL cut '-d ' -f2- \
+  | grep --line-buffered ^action \
+  | stdbuf -oL cut '-d ' -f2- \
+  | xargs -L1 printf "%s0a\n" \
+  | stdbuf -oL xxd -r -p