Command line argument escaping

cmd-arg.md

Command line argument escaping

Here is a list of open source implementations of command line argument escaping.

libuv

• implementation: make_program_args
• test: test/test-spawn.c

Python

• https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/subprocess.html#converting-an-argument-sequence-to-a-string-on-windows
• implementation: subprocess.list2cmdline()
• test: test_list2cmdline

Poco

It simply does not quote arguments...

Go

• implementation: makeCmdLine

Ruby

• implementation: join_argv
• test: test_system_shell

Qt

• implementation: qt_create_commandline
• test: spaceArgsTest_data, spaceArgsTest