I think this belongs in [text]. I am not -1 but let's see how the
discussion does in the other thread.
Gary
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From: britter <g...@git.apache.org>
Date: Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 3:37 AM
Subject: [GitHub] commons-lang pull request #208: LANG-1066: Add shell/XSI
escape/unescape sup...
To: iss...@commons.apache.org
Github user britter commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/commons-lang/pull/208#discussion_r88777926
--- Diff: src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/StringEscapeUtils.java
---
@@ -801,4 +876,61 @@ public static final String unescapeCsv(final
String input) {
return UNESCAPE_CSV.translate(input);
}
+ // Shell
+ /**
+ * <p>Escapes the characters in a {@code String} using XSI
rules.</p>
+ *
+ * <p><b>Beware!</b> In most cases you don't want to escape shell
commands but use multi-argument
+ * methods provided by {@link java.lang.ProcessBuilder} or {@link
java.lang.Runtime#exec(String[])}
+ * instead.</p>
+ *
+ * <p>Example:</p>
+ * <pre>
+ * input string: He didn't say, "Stop!"
+ * output string: He\ didn\'t\ say,\ \"Stop!\"
+ * </pre>
+ *
+ * @see <a href="http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/
chap2.html">Shell Command Language</a>
+ * @param input String to escape values in, may be null
+ * @return String with escaped values, {@code null} if null string
input
+ * @since 3.6
+ */
+ public static final String escapeXSI(final String input) {
+ return ESCAPE_XSI.translate(input);
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * <p>Alias for {@link #escapeXSI(String)}.</p>
+ *
+ * @param input String to escape values in, may be null
+ * @return String with escaped values, {@code null} if null string
input
+ * @since 3.6
+ */
+ public static final String escapeShell(final String input) {
--- End diff --
I'm not sure whether it is a good idea to have aliases for methods.
Does this help users to find what they are looking for or does this really
cause confusion?
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