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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/puppet/parser/functions/shell_escape.rb')
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1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/puppet/parser/functions/shell_escape.rb b/lib/puppet/parser/functions/shell_escape.rb new file mode 100644 index 0000000..447fe35 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/puppet/parser/functions/shell_escape.rb @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +# +# shell_escape.rb +# + +require 'shellwords' + +module Puppet::Parser::Functions + 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 +end + +# vim: set ts=2 sw=2 et : |