Full rework of quote_c_style and write_name_quoted.
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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 void sq_quote_print(FILE *stream, const char *src);
32 extern char *sq_quote_argv(const char** argv, int count);
35 * Append a string to a string buffer, with or without shell quoting.
36 * Return true if the buffer overflowed.
38 extern int add_to_string(char **ptrp, int *sizep, const char *str, int quote);
40 /* This unwraps what sq_quote() produces in place, but returns
41 * NULL if the input does not look like what sq_quote would have
42 * produced.
44 extern char *sq_dequote(char *);
46 extern int unquote_c_style(struct strbuf *, const char *quoted, const char **endp);
47 extern size_t quote_c_style(const char *name, struct strbuf *, FILE *, int no_dq);
49 extern void write_name_quoted(const char *name, FILE *, int terminator);
50 extern void write_name_quotedpfx(const char *pfx, size_t pfxlen,
51 const char *name, FILE *, int terminator);
53 /* quoting as a string literal for other languages */
54 extern void perl_quote_print(FILE *stream, const char *src);
55 extern void python_quote_print(FILE *stream, const char *src);
56 extern void tcl_quote_print(FILE *stream, const char *src);
58 #endif