gnu/dist/gettext/gettext-tools/lib/sh-quote.h

   1 /* Shell quoting.
   2    Copyright (C) 2001-2002, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   3    Written by Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org>, 2001.
   4
   5    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   6    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   7    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
   8    any later version.
   9
  10    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  11    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  12    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  13    GNU General Public License for more details.
  14
  15    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  16    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
  17    Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.  */
  18
  19 /* When passing a command to a shell, we must quote the program name and
  20    arguments, since Unix shells interpret characters like " ", "'", "<", ">",
  21    "$" etc. in a special way.  */
  22
  23 #include <stddef.h>
  24
  25 /* Returns the number of bytes needed for the quoted string.  */
  26 extern size_t shell_quote_length (const char *string);
  27
  28 /* Copies the quoted string to p and returns the incremented p.
  29    There must be room for shell_quote_length (string) + 1 bytes at p.  */
  30 extern char * shell_quote_copy (char *p, const char *string);
  31
  32 /* Returns the freshly allocated quoted string.  */
  33 extern char * shell_quote (const char *string);
  34
  35 /* Returns a freshly allocated string containing all argument strings, quoted,
  36    separated through spaces.  */
  37 extern char * shell_quote_argv (char **argv);