# This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public # License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file, # You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. import re SHELL_QUOTE_RE = re.compile(r"[\\\t\r\n \'\"#<>&|`(){}$;\*\?]") def _quote(s): """Given a string, returns a version that can be used literally on a shell command line, enclosing it with single quotes if necessary. As a special case, if given an int, returns a string containing the int, not enclosed in quotes. """ if type(s) == int: return "%d" % s # Empty strings need to be quoted to have any significance if s and not SHELL_QUOTE_RE.search(s) and not s.startswith("~"): return s # Single quoted strings can contain any characters unescaped except the # single quote itself, which can't even be escaped, so the string needs to # be closed, an escaped single quote added, and reopened. t = type(s) return t("'%s'") % s.replace(t("'"), t("'\\''")) def quote(*strings): """Given one or more strings, returns a quoted string that can be used literally on a shell command line. >>> quote('a', 'b') "a b" >>> quote('a b', 'c') "'a b' c" """ return " ".join(_quote(s) for s in strings)