# Copyright (c) 2017 Ansible Project # Simplified BSD License (see licenses/simplified_bsd.txt or https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause) # The rules used in these functions are derived from the below # https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/cpp/parsing-cpp-command-line-arguments # https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/twistylittlepassagesallalike/2011/04/23/everyone-quotes-command-line-arguments-the-wrong-way/ Function Escape-Argument($argument, $force_quote = $false) { # this converts a single argument to an escaped version, use Join-Arguments # instead of this function as this only escapes a single string. # check if argument contains a space, \n, \t, \v or " if ($force_quote -eq $false -and $argument.Length -gt 0 -and $argument -notmatch "[ \n\t\v`"]") { # argument does not need escaping (and we don't want to force it), # return as is return $argument } else { # we need to quote the arg so start with " $new_argument = '"' for ($i = 0; $i -lt $argument.Length; $i++) { $num_backslashes = 0 # get the number of \ from current char until end or not a \ while ($i -ne ($argument.Length - 1) -and $argument[$i] -eq "\") { $num_backslashes++ $i++ } $current_char = $argument[$i] if ($i -eq ($argument.Length - 1) -and $current_char -eq "\") { # We are at the end of the string so we need to add the same \ # * 2 as the end char would be a " $new_argument += ("\" * ($num_backslashes + 1) * 2) } elseif ($current_char -eq '"') { # we have a inline ", we need to add the existing \ but * by 2 # plus another 1 $new_argument += ("\" * (($num_backslashes * 2) + 1)) $new_argument += $current_char } else { # normal character so no need to escape the \ we have counted $new_argument += ("\" * $num_backslashes) $new_argument += $current_char } } # we need to close the special arg with a " $new_argument += '"' return $new_argument } } Function Argv-ToString($arguments, $force_quote = $false) { # Takes in a list of un escaped arguments and convert it to a single string # that can be used when starting a new process. It will escape the # characters as necessary in the list. # While there is a CommandLineToArgvW function there is a no # ArgvToCommandLineW that we can call to convert a list to an escaped # string. # You can also pass in force_quote so that each argument is quoted even # when not necessary, by default only arguments with certain characters are # quoted. # TODO: add in another switch which will escape the args for cmd.exe $escaped_arguments = @() foreach ($argument in $arguments) { $escaped_argument = Escape-Argument -argument $argument -force_quote $force_quote $escaped_arguments += $escaped_argument } return ($escaped_arguments -join ' ') } # this line must stay at the bottom to ensure all defined module parts are exported Export-ModuleMember -Alias * -Function * -Cmdlet *