quote


Description:

public string quote (string unquoted_string)

Quotes a string so that the shell (/bin/sh) will interpret the quoted string to mean unquoted_string.

If you pass a filename to the shell, for example, you should first quote it with this function. The return value must be freed with g_free. The quoting style used is undefined (single or double quotes may be used).

Parameters:

unquoted_string

a literal string

Returns:

quoted string


Namespace: GLib.Shell
Package: glib-2.0