From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2009-02-27T07:11:04+09:00
Subject: Re: shell escape

On Feb 26, 2009, at 4:05 PM, Suraj Kurapati wrote:

> 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?

It's in Ruby 1.9.  See my notes at the bottom of this post:

http://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/the_secret_shell_helper

James Edward Gray II