#ifndef QUOTE_H #define QUOTE_H #include #include /* Help to copy the thing properly quoted for the shell safety. * any single quote is replaced with '\'', any exclamation point * is replaced with '\!', and the whole thing is enclosed in a * single quote pair. * * For example, if you are passing the result to system() as an * argument: * * sprintf(cmd, "foobar %s %s", sq_quote(arg0), sq_quote(arg1)) * * would be appropriate. If the system() is going to call ssh to * run the command on the other side: * * sprintf(cmd, "git-diff-tree %s %s", sq_quote(arg0), sq_quote(arg1)); * sprintf(rcmd, "ssh %s %s", sq_quote(host), sq_quote(cmd)); * * Note that the above examples leak memory! Remember to free result from * sq_quote() in a real application. * * sq_quote_buf() writes to an existing buffer of specified size; it * will return the number of characters that would have been written * excluding the final null regardless of the buffer size. */ extern char *sq_quote(const char *src); extern size_t sq_quote_buf(char *dst, size_t n, const char *src); /* This unwraps what sq_quote() produces in place, but returns * NULL if the input does not look like what sq_quote would have * produced. */ extern char *sq_dequote(char *); extern int quote_c_style(const char *name, char *outbuf, FILE *outfp, int nodq); extern char *unquote_c_style(const char *quoted, const char **endp); extern void write_name_quoted(const char *prefix, const char *name, int quote, FILE *out); #endif