stockholm/lib/shell.nix
2017-06-18 15:49:54 +02:00

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Nix

{ lib, ... }:
with lib;
rec {
escape =
let
isSafeChar = testString "[-+./0-9:=A-Z_a-z]";
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}";
}