quote.c

#include "cache.h"
#include "quote.h"

/* Help to copy the thing properly quoted for the shell safety.
 * any single quote is replaced with '\'', and the caller is
 * expected to enclose the result within a single quote pair.
 *
 * E.g.
 *  original     sq_quote     result
 *  name     ==> name      ==> 'name'
 *  a b      ==> a b       ==> 'a b'
 *  a'b      ==> a'\''b    ==> 'a'\''b'
 */
char *sq_quote(const char *src)
{
	static char *buf = NULL;
	int cnt, c;
	const char *cp;
	char *bp;

	/* count bytes needed to store the quoted string. */
	for (cnt = 3, cp = src; *cp; cnt++, cp++)
		if (*cp == '\'')
			cnt += 3;

	buf = xmalloc(cnt);
	bp = buf;
	*bp++ = '\'';
	while ((c = *src++)) {
		if (c != '\'')
			*bp++ = c;
		else {
			bp = strcpy(bp, "'\\''");
			bp += 4;
		}
	}
	*bp++ = '\'';
	*bp = 0;
	return buf;
}