Quote and escape environment variables in upstart templates

2012-04-03 16:36:18 -04:00
parent 69216b4c5e
commit 2fcb64959b
3 changed files with 22 additions and 1 deletions
@@ -48,4 +48,19 @@ private ######################################################################
    end
  end

+  # Quote a string to be used on the command line. Backslashes are escapde to \\ and quotes 
+  # escaped to \"
+  #
+  #   str - string to be quoted
+  #
+  # Examples
+  # 
+  #  shell_quote("FB|123\"\\1")
+  #  # => "\"FB|123\"\\"\\\\1\""
+  #
+  # Returns the the escaped string surrounded by quotes 
+  def shell_quote(str)
+    "\"#{str.gsub(/\\/){ '\\\\' }.gsub(/["]/){ "\\\"" }}\""
+  end
+
 end