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author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2001-09-16 15:53:03 +0000 |
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committer | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2001-09-16 15:53:03 +0000 |
commit | 8ff12704396804a6c6c055cf887fa889b0792bd8 (patch) | |
tree | 9e792ed881837537e52f88667bf6e33a0e2ca96f /lib/sh-quote.h | |
parent | b5f57aad802a258cea04719effbd029f9978dbbb (diff) | |
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Add subroutines for passing strings to a program through a shell.
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diff --git a/lib/sh-quote.h b/lib/sh-quote.h new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8c18c98 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/sh-quote.h @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +/* Shell quoting. + Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + Written by Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org>, 2001. + + This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify + it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by + the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) + any later version. + + This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, + but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of + MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the + GNU General Public License for more details. + + You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License + along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, + Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ + +/* When passing a command to a shell, we must quote the program name and + arguments, since Unix shells interpret characters like " ", "'", "<", ">", + "$" etc. in a special way. */ + +#include <stddef.h> + +/* Returns the number of bytes needed for the quoted string. */ +extern size_t shell_quote_length PARAMS ((const char *string)); + +/* Copies the quoted string to p and returns the incremented p. */ +extern char * shell_quote_copy PARAMS ((char *p, const char *string)); + +/* Returns the freshly allocated quoted string. */ +extern char * shell_quote PARAMS ((const char *string)); + +/* Returns a freshly allocated string containing all argument strings, quoted, + separated through spaces. */ +extern char * shell_quote_argv PARAMS ((char **argv)); |