From 63cf4c66e97a92f3e553707ecd0bc278a7cc4563 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Arnold D. Robbins" <arnold@skeeve.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 21:41:24 +0300
Subject: More doc updates.

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 awklib/eg/lib/shellquote.awk | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 awklib/eg/lib/shellquote.awk

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diff --git a/awklib/eg/lib/shellquote.awk b/awklib/eg/lib/shellquote.awk
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cd943dc7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/awklib/eg/lib/shellquote.awk
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# shell_quote --- quote an argument for passing to the shell
+#
+# Michael Brennan
+# brennan@madronabluff.com
+# September 2014
+
+function shell_quote(s,             # parameter
+    SINGLE, QSINGLE, i, X, n, ret)  # locals
+{
+    if (s == "")
+        return "\"\""
+
+    SINGLE = "\x27"  # single quote
+    QSINGLE = "\"\x27\""
+    n = split(s, X, SINGLE)
+
+    ret = SINGLE X[1] SINGLE
+    for (i = 2; i <= n; i++)
+        ret = ret QSINGLE SINGLE X[i] SINGLE
+
+    return ret
+}
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