s6-portable-utils
Software
skarnet.org

The s6-quote program

s6-quote quotes a string and writes it to stdout.

Interface

     s6-quote [ -n ] [ -u ] [ -d delim ] string

• s6-quote quotes string, putting it inside double quotes and escaping all dubious characters
• It writes the quoted string to stdout and exits 0

Options

• -n : do not print a trailing newline
• -u : do not put string inside double quotes, only escape characters if needed
• -d delim : use the first character of delim as a quote character, instead of double quotes

Notes

• Quoted strings are guaranteed to be pure printable ASCII, without control characters.
• Quoted strings can be unquoted via the s6-unquote or s6-unquote-filter programs.
• Quoted strings are suitable for interpretation by execlineb.