From aa167d3e26bd4fd0fedc1ea94b7069cca2100181 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tv <tv@krebsco.de>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 20:24:45 +0200
Subject: lib: import shell from krebs/4lib

---
 lib/shell.nix | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 lib/shell.nix

(limited to 'lib/shell.nix')

diff --git a/lib/shell.nix b/lib/shell.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a8ff5dbe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/shell.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{ lib, ... }:
+
+with lib;
+
+rec {
+  escape =
+    let
+      isSafeChar = c: match "[-+./0-9:=A-Z_a-z]" c != null;
+    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}";
+}
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