From 216afac3f271b345c115d8777b1a6ad671bebc4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: a-bad-dev <244852891+a-bad-dev@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:28:56 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fix invalid UTF-8 bytes in output crashing the script

---
 main.py | 23 ++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/main.py b/main.py
index 7455e16..15ca5ce 100644
--- a/main.py
+++ b/main.py
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ class IRC2BASH:
                 #
 
                 command_list = []
+                command_noescapes = command
                 for letter in command:
                     match letter:
                         case "\\":
@@ -126,15 +127,19 @@ class IRC2BASH:
                 print(f"{channel}: <{username}> {command}")
                 os.system(f"/bin/bash -c \"{command}\" >/tmp/.command 2>&1")
 
-                with open("/tmp/.command", "r") as f:
-                    output = f.read()
-                
-                output = output.strip()
-                print(output)
-                output = output.split("\n")
-                for line in output:
-                    IRC2BASH.send(f"PRIVMSG {IRC2BASH.chan} :{line}")
-                    time.sleep(0.75)
+                try:
+                    with open("/tmp/.command", "r") as f:
+                        output = f.read()
+                        output = output.strip()
+                        print(output)
+                        output = output.split("\n")
+                        for line in output:
+                            IRC2BASH.send(f"PRIVMSG {IRC2BASH.chan} :{line}")
+                            time.sleep(0.75)
+
+                except UnicodeDecodeError:
+                    print(f"UnicodeDecodeError: invalid bytes, caused by: {command_noescapes}")
+                    IRC2BASH.send(f"PRIVMSG {IRC2BASH.chan} :Invalid bytes in response.")
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     IRC2BASH.main()