shell-escape 0.1.5

Escape characters that may have a special meaning in a shell
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//! Escape characters that may have special meaning in a shell.
#![doc(html_root_url="https://docs.rs/shell-escape/0.1")]

use std::borrow::Cow;
use std::env;

/// Escape characters that may have special meaning in a shell.
pub fn escape(s: Cow<str>) -> Cow<str> {
    if cfg!(unix) || env::var("MSYSTEM").is_ok() {
        unix::escape(s)
    } else {
        windows::escape(s)
    }
}

/// Windows-specific escaping.
pub mod windows {
    use std::borrow::Cow;
    use std::iter::repeat;

    /// Escape for the windows cmd.exe shell.
    ///
    /// See [here][msdn] for more information.
    ///
    /// [msdn]: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/twistylittlepassagesallalike/archive/2011/04/23/everyone-quotes-arguments-the-wrong-way.aspx
    pub fn escape(s: Cow<str>) -> Cow<str> {
        let mut needs_escape = s.is_empty();
        for ch in s.chars() {
            match ch {
                '"' | '\t' | '\n' | ' ' => needs_escape = true,
                _ => {}
            }
        }
        if !needs_escape {
            return s
        }
        let mut es = String::with_capacity(s.len());
        es.push('"');
        let mut chars = s.chars().peekable();
        loop {
            let mut nslashes = 0;
            while let Some(&'\\') = chars.peek() {
                chars.next();
                nslashes += 1;
            }

            match chars.next() {
                Some('"') => {
                    es.extend(repeat('\\').take(nslashes * 2 + 1));
                    es.push('"');
                }
                Some(c) => {
                    es.extend(repeat('\\').take(nslashes));
                    es.push(c);
                }
                None => {
                    es.extend(repeat('\\').take(nslashes * 2));
                    break;
                }
            }

        }
        es.push('"');
        es.into()
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_escape() {
        assert_eq!(escape("--aaa=bbb-ccc".into()), "--aaa=bbb-ccc");
        assert_eq!(escape("linker=gcc -L/foo -Wl,bar".into()),
        r#""linker=gcc -L/foo -Wl,bar""#);
        assert_eq!(escape(r#"--features="default""#.into()),
        r#""--features=\"default\"""#);
        assert_eq!(escape(r#"\path\to\my documents\"#.into()),
        r#""\path\to\my documents\\""#);
        assert_eq!(escape("".into()), r#""""#);
    }
}

/// Unix-specific escaping.
pub mod unix {
    use std::borrow::Cow;

    fn non_whitelisted(ch: char) -> bool {
        match ch {
            'a'...'z' | 'A'...'Z' | '0'...'9' | '-' | '_' | '=' | '/' | ',' | '.' | '+' => false,
            _ => true,
        }
    }

    /// Escape characters that may have special meaning in a shell, including spaces.
    pub fn escape(s: Cow<str>) -> Cow<str> {
        if !s.is_empty() && !s.contains(non_whitelisted) {
            return s;
        }

        let mut es = String::with_capacity(s.len() + 2);
        es.push('\'');
        for ch in s.chars() {
            match ch {
                '\'' | '!' => {
                    es.push_str("'\\");
                    es.push(ch);
                    es.push('\'');
                }
                _ => es.push(ch),
            }
        }
        es.push('\'');
        es.into()
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_escape() {
        assert_eq!(
            escape("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789-_=/,.+".into()),
            "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789-_=/,.+"
        );
        assert_eq!(escape("--aaa=bbb-ccc".into()), "--aaa=bbb-ccc");
        assert_eq!(escape("linker=gcc -L/foo -Wl,bar".into()), r#"'linker=gcc -L/foo -Wl,bar'"#);
        assert_eq!(escape(r#"--features="default""#.into()), r#"'--features="default"'"#);
        assert_eq!(escape(r#"'!\$`\\\n "#.into()), r#"''\'''\!'\$`\\\n '"#);
        assert_eq!(escape("".into()), r#"''"#);
    }
}