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Quote a single- or multi-line string for use in git's aliases
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#!/bin/bash -eu | |
# Quote a single- or multi-line string for use in git's aliases | |
# Copyright (c) 2016 Tom Hale under https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License | |
quote() { | |
printf %s "$1" | sed -r 's/(["\\])/\\\1/g'; | |
} | |
IFS=$(printf '\n') | |
printf '\n!"' | |
read -r previous | |
while read -r line; do | |
quote "$previous" | |
printf ' \\n\\\n' | |
previous="$line" | |
done | |
quote "$previous" | |
printf " #\"\n"; |
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