s6-portable-utils
Software
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The s6-unquote program

s6-unquote unquotes a quoted string and writes it to stdout.

Interface

     s6-unquote [ -n ] [ -d delim ] string

• s6-unquote unquotes string, which must follow the syntax of s6-quote's output strings
• It prints various warning or error messages to stderr if it cannot unquote string properly
• If successful, it prints the result to stdout and exits 0

Options

• -n : do not print a trailing newline.
• -d delim : a list of characters that will be considered as delimiters (to start and end the quoted string). By default, only the double quote is such a character. If delim is the empty string, s6-unquote interprets string as non-delimited, only escaped (i.e. the result of some s6-quote -u operation).

Notes

• Quoted strings can be produced via the s6-quote or s6-quote-filter programs.