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1 #ifndef QUOTE_H
2 #define QUOTE_H
4 #include <stddef.h>
5 #include <stdio.h>
7 /* Help to copy the thing properly quoted for the shell safety.
8 * any single quote is replaced with '\'', any exclamation point
9 * is replaced with '\!', and the whole thing is enclosed in a
10 * single quote pair.
12 * For example, if you are passing the result to system() as an
13 * argument:
15 * sprintf(cmd, "foobar %s %s", sq_quote(arg0), sq_quote(arg1))
17 * would be appropriate. If the system() is going to call ssh to
18 * run the command on the other side:
20 * sprintf(cmd, "git-diff-tree %s %s", sq_quote(arg0), sq_quote(arg1));
21 * sprintf(rcmd, "ssh %s %s", sq_quote(host), sq_quote(cmd));
23 * Note that the above examples leak memory! Remember to free result from
24 * sq_quote() in a real application.
26 * sq_quote_buf() writes to an existing buffer of specified size; it
27 * will return the number of characters that would have been written
28 * excluding the final null regardless of the buffer size.
31 extern char *sq_quote(const char *src);
32 extern size_t sq_quote_buf(char *dst, size_t n, const char *src);
34 extern int quote_c_style(const char *name, char *outbuf, FILE *outfp,
35 int nodq);
36 extern char *unquote_c_style(const char *quoted, const char **endp);
38 extern void write_name_quoted(const char *prefix, const char *name,
39 int quote, FILE *out);
41 #endif