<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 V1.79.1"><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"><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"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis" style="width:80%"><div style="border: 1px solid #282; margin:1ex ; padding:.4ex; padding-left: 0.8ex;   word-spacing:1ex "><span style="font-weight:bold ; font-family:monospace">::rivet::escape_shell_command</span>  ?<span style="font-family:monospace; font-weight: bold;">string</span>?</div></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idm876"></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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