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| author | zimbatm <zimbatm@zimbatm.com> | 2016-06-19 23:27:52 +0100 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2016-06-19 23:27:52 +0100 |
| commit | b0f8416c5c0e5345897832ae0cce139ed85c7fdb (patch) | |
| tree | c34d9ef7febb4c1a6df6f179130506219e5e2d81 /lib/strings.nix | |
| parent | 53f421c0c4b4916426c369bfb996422209e6ebf7 (diff) | |
| parent | 28fa4a2f03e2232d95dec9dc2b8ef40857d725db (diff) | |
Merge pull request #16180 from zimbatm/shell-escaping
Escape all shell arguments uniformly
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/strings.nix')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/strings.nix | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/strings.nix b/lib/strings.nix index 7109bd4ec6e1..04376a5f2fbe 100644 --- a/lib/strings.nix +++ b/lib/strings.nix @@ -209,7 +209,16 @@ rec { escapeShellArg "so([<>])me" => "so\\(\\[\\<\\>\\]\\)me" */ - escapeShellArg = lib.escape (stringToCharacters "\\ ';$`()|<>\t*[]"); + escapeShellArg = arg: + lib.escape (stringToCharacters "\\ ';$`()|<>\t*[]") (toString arg); + + /* Escape all arguments to be passed to the Bourne shell. + + Example: + escapeShellArgs ["one" "two three"] + => "one two\\ three" + */ + escapeShellArgs = concatMapStringsSep " " escapeShellArg; /* Obsolete - use replaceStrings instead. */ replaceChars = builtins.replaceStrings or ( |