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authorlassulus <lass@aidsballs.de>2016-08-02 20:41:47 +0200
committerlassulus <lass@aidsballs.de>2016-08-02 20:41:47 +0200
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+{ lib, ... }:
+
+with lib;
+
+rec {
+ escape =
+ let
+ isSafeChar = c: match "[-+./0-9:=A-Z_a-z]" c != null;
+ in
+ stringAsChars (c:
+ if isSafeChar c then c
+ else if c == "\n" then "'\n'"
+ else "\\${c}");
+
+ #
+ # shell script generators
+ #
+
+ # example: "${cat (toJSON { foo = "bar"; })} | jq -r .foo"
+ cat = s: "printf '%s' ${escape s}";
+}