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
12 * For example, if you are passing the result to system() as an
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 void sq_quote_print(FILE *stream
, const char *src
);
33 extern void sq_quote_buf(struct strbuf
*, const char *src
);
34 extern void sq_quote_argv(struct strbuf
*, const char **argv
, size_t maxlen
);
36 /* This unwraps what sq_quote() produces in place, but returns
37 * NULL if the input does not look like what sq_quote would have
40 extern char *sq_dequote(char *);
43 * Same as the above, but can be used to unwrap many arguments in the
44 * same string separated by space. "next" is changed to point to the
45 * next argument that should be passed as first parameter. When there
46 * is no more argument to be dequoted, "next" is updated to point to NULL.
48 extern char *sq_dequote_step(char *arg
, char **next
);
50 extern int unquote_c_style(struct strbuf
*, const char *quoted
, const char **endp
);
51 extern size_t quote_c_style(const char *name
, struct strbuf
*, FILE *, int no_dq
);
52 extern void quote_two_c_style(struct strbuf
*, const char *, const char *, int);
54 extern void write_name_quoted(const char *name
, FILE *, int terminator
);
55 extern void write_name_quotedpfx(const char *pfx
, size_t pfxlen
,
56 const char *name
, FILE *, int terminator
);
58 /* quote path as relative to the given prefix */
59 char *quote_path_relative(const char *in
, int len
,
60 struct strbuf
*out
, const char *prefix
);
62 /* quoting as a string literal for other languages */
63 extern void perl_quote_print(FILE *stream
, const char *src
);
64 extern void python_quote_print(FILE *stream
, const char *src
);
65 extern void tcl_quote_print(FILE *stream
, const char *src
);