From: Suraj Kurapati <snk@...>
Date: 2009-02-27T07:05:45+09:00
Subject: Re: shell escape

James Gray wrote:
> I would define shell_escape() as something like:
> 
>    def shell_escape(str)
>      String(str).gsub(/(?=[^a-zA-Z0-9_.\/\-\x7F-\xFF\n])/n, '\\').
>                  gsub(/\n/,                                 "'\n'").
>                  sub(/^$/,                                  "''")
>    end
> 

Nice!  I always wished this method was in the Ruby stdlib.  Maybe it 
could be added as a class method of the Shell class in the "shell" 
stdlib?

  require 'shell'
  Shell.escape('foo "bar".txt')

Shall I file a feature request to ruby-core?
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