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ShellQuote(3)	      User Contributed Perl Documentation	 ShellQuote(3)

NAME
       String::ShellQuote - quote strings for passing through the shell

SYNOPSIS
	   $string = shell_quote @list;
	   $string = shell_quote_best_effort @list;
	   $string = shell_comment_quote $string;

DESCRIPTION
       This module contains some functions which are useful for quoting
       strings which are going to pass through the shell or a shell-like
       object.

       shell_quote [string]...
	   shell_quote quotes strings so they can be passed through the shell.
	   Each string is quoted so that the shell will pass it along as a
	   single argument and without further interpretation.	If no strings
	   are given an empty string is returned.

	   If any string can't be safely quoted shell_quote will croak.

       shell_quote_best_effort [string]...
	   This is like shell_quote, excpet if the string can't be safely
	   quoted it does the best it can and returns the result, instead of
	   dying.

       shell_comment_quote [string]
	   shell_comment_quote quotes the string so that it can safely be
	   included in a shell-style comment (the current algorithm is that a
	   sharp character is placed after any newlines in the string).

	   This routine might be changed to accept multiple string arguments
	   in the future.  I haven't done this yet because I'm not sure if the
	   strings should be joined with blanks ($") or nothing ($,).  Cast
	   your vote today!  Be sure to justify your answer.

EXAMPLES
	   $cmd = 'fuser 2>/dev/null ' . shell_quote @files;
	   @pids = split ' ', `$cmd`;

	   print CFG "# Configured by: ",
		       shell_comment_quote($ENV{LOGNAME}), "\n";

BUGS
       Only Bourne shell quoting is supported.	I'd like to add other shells
       (particularly cmd.exe), but I'm not familiar with them.	It would be a
       big help if somebody supplied the details.

AUTHOR
       Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>

SEE ALSO
       perl(1).

perl v5.16.3			  2010-06-11			 ShellQuote(3)
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