escapeShellArg

lib.escapeShellArg

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Quote string to be used safely within the Bourne shell if it has any special characters.

Inputs

string: 1. Function argument

Type

escapeShellArg :: string -> string

Examples

`lib.strings.escapeShellArg` usage example

escapeShellArg "esc'ape\nme"
=> "'esc'\\''ape\nme'"

(lib.strings.escapeShellArg)

Noogle detected

Aliases

lib.strings.escapeShellArg

Implementation

The following is the current implementation of this function.

escapeShellArg =
    arg:
    let
      string = toString arg;
    in
    if match "[[:alnum:],._+:@%/-]+" string == null then
      "'${replaceStrings [ "'" ] [ "'\\''" ] string}'"
    else
      string;