Yash-quote

yash-quote is a Rust library crate for quoting strings used in a POSIX shell script. This crate provides just one function: quote. It returns a quoted version of the argument string.

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Usage

Add yash-quote as a dependency in your Cargo.toml.

use std::borrow::Cow::{Borrowed, Owned};
use yash_quote::quote;
assert_eq!(quote("foo"), Borrowed("foo"));
assert_eq!(quote(""), Owned::<str>("''".to_owned()));
assert_eq!(quote("$foo"), Owned::<str>("'$foo'".to_owned()));
assert_eq!(quote("'$foo'"), Owned::<str>(r#""'\$foo'""#.to_owned()));

License

MIT or Apache 2.0, at your option

Similar crates

• r-shquote provides a function that always quotes using single quotes.
• The quote function of the shell_words crate is similar but tries to return the argument unchanged if possible. Unlike yash-quote, it only supports ASCII characters.
• snailquote is also similar but uses an original format that is not fully compatible with POSIX shells.
• shell_quote returns a string escaped using Bash's $'...' notation.

For the reverse operation of quote, the yash-syntax crate provides the unquote function.