<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>escape_shell_command</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="rivet.css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.76.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Apache Rivet"><link rel="up" href="commands.html" title="Rivet Tcl Commands and Variables"><link rel="prev" href="escape_sgml_chars.html" title="escape_sgml_chars"><link rel="next" href="escape_string.html" title="escape_string"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">escape_shell_command</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="escape_sgml_chars.html"><img src="images/prev.png" alt="Prev"></a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Rivet Tcl Commands and Variables</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="escape_string.html"><img src="images/next.png" alt="Next"></a></td></tr></table></div><div class="refentry" title="escape_shell_command"><div class="refentry.separator"><hr></div><a name="escape_shell_command"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>escape_shell_command — escape shell metacharacters in a string.</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis" style="width:80%"><div style="background:#ccccff ; margin:1ex ; padding:.4ex; padding-left: 0.8ex;   word-spacing:1ex "><span style="font-weight:bold ; font-family:monospace">escape_shell_command</span>  ?<span style="font-family:monospace; font-weight: bold;">string</span>?</div></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="Description"><a name="idp5347536"></a><h2>Description</h2><p style="width:90%">
          Scans through each character in the specified string looking
          for any shell metacharacters, such as asterisk, less than and
          greater than, parens, square brackets, curly brackets, angle 
          brackets, dollar signs, backslashes, semicolons, ampersands,
          vertical bars, etc. 	
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          For each metacharacter found, it is quoted in the result by
          prepending it with a backslash, returning the result.
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            You must require the Rivet package in order to gain access to this command
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