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*
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*/
_DEFS(glibmm,glib)
#include
#include
#include
#include
namespace Glib
{
/** @defgroup ShellUtils Shell-related Utilities
* Shell-like command line handling.
* @{
*/
/** Exception class for shell utility errors.
*/
_WRAP_GERROR(ShellError, GShellError, G_SHELL_ERROR, NO_GTYPE, decl_prefix GLIBMM_API)
/** Parses a command line into an argument vector, in much the same way the
* shell would, but without many of the expansions the shell would perform
* (variable expansion, globs, operators, filename expansion, etc.\ are not
* supported). The results are defined to be the same as those you would
* get from a UNIX98 /bin/sh, as long as the input contains none of the
* unsupported shell expansions. If the input does contain such expansions,
* they are passed through literally.
* @param command_line Command line to parse.
* @return Array of args (The generic ArrayHandle will be implicitly
* converted to any STL compatible container type).
* @throw Glib::ShellError
*/
GLIBMM_API
std::vector shell_parse_argv(const std::string& command_line);
/** Quotes a string so that the shell (/bin/sh) will interpret the quoted
* string to mean @a unquoted_string. If you pass a filename to the shell,
* for example, you should first quote it with this function. The quoting
* style used is undefined (single or double quotes may be used).
* @param unquoted_string A literal string.
* @return A quoted string.
*/
GLIBMM_API
std::string shell_quote(const std::string& unquoted_string);
/** Unquotes a string as the shell (/bin/sh) would. Only handles quotes; if
* a string contains file globs, arithmetic operators, variables, backticks,
* redirections, or other special-to-the-shell features, the result will be
* different from the result a real shell would produce (the variables,
* backticks, etc. will be passed through literally instead of being expanded).
* This function is guaranteed to succeed if applied to the result of
* shell_quote(). If it fails, it throws a Glib::ShellError exception. The
* @a quoted_string need not actually contain quoted or escaped text;
* shell_unquote() simply goes through the string and unquotes/unescapes
* anything that the shell would. Both single and double quotes are handled,
* as are escapes including escaped newlines.
*
* Shell quoting rules are a bit strange. Single quotes preserve the literal
* string exactly. Escape sequences are not allowed; not even \\' --
* if you want a ' in the quoted text, you have to do something like
* 'foo'\\''bar'. Double quotes allow $, `,
* ", \\, and newline to be escaped with backslash.
* Otherwise double quotes preserve things literally.
*
* @param quoted_string Shell-quoted string.
* @return An unquoted string.
* @throw Glib::ShellError
*/
GLIBMM_API
std::string shell_unquote(const std::string& quoted_string);
/** @} group ShellUtils */
} // namespace Glib