From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-04-11T21:33:12+09:00
Subject: Re: escapeshellcmd() for Ruby

On Apr 11, 2007, at 7:20 AM, hawe wrote:

> Is there something like PHP's escapeshellcmd() function which removes
> special signs for system calls? Or do I have to do it myself and  
> escape
> |;>"? What else?

I'm not aware of anything, but TextMate uses to following code for  
shell escaping:

# escape text to make it useable in a shell script as one  
�word� (string)
def e_sh(str)
	str.to_s.gsub(/(?=[^a-zA-Z0-9_.\/\-\x7F-\xFF\n])/, '\\').gsub(/\n/,  
"'\n'").sub(/^$/, "''")
end

Not sure how portable that is, but hopefully it will get you started.

James Edward Gray II