Puppet Function: shell_escape

Defined in:
puppet/modules/stdlib/lib/puppet/parser/functions/shell_escape.rb
Function type:
Ruby 3.x API

Overview

shell_escape() ⇒ Any

Escapes a string so that it can be safely used in a Bourne shell command line.

Note that the resulting string should be used unquoted and is not intended for use in double quotes nor in single quotes.

This function behaves the same as ruby's Shellwords.shellescape() function.

Returns:

  • (Any) 


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# File 'puppet/modules/stdlib/lib/puppet/parser/functions/shell_escape.rb', line 8

newfunction(:shell_escape, :type => :rvalue, :doc => <<-EOS
Escapes a string so that it can be safely used in a Bourne shell command line.

Note that the resulting string should be used unquoted and is not intended for use in double quotes nor in single
quotes.

This function behaves the same as ruby's Shellwords.shellescape() function.
EOS
) do |arguments|

  raise(Puppet::ParseError, "shell_escape(): Wrong number of arguments " +
      "given (#{arguments.size} for 1)") if arguments.size != 1

  # explicit conversion to string is required for ruby 1.9
  string = arguments[0].to_s

  result = Shellwords.shellescape(string)

  return result
end