+
+/*
+ * Escapes the name of a file so that the shell groks it in 'single'
+ * quotation marks. The resulting pointer has to be free()ed when not
+ * longer used.
+*/
+char *
+shell_escape(const char *fn)
+{
+ size_t len = 0;
+ const char *inp;
+ char *retval, *outp;
+
+ for(inp = fn; *inp; ++inp)
+ switch(*inp)
+ {
+ case '\'': len += 4; break;
+ default: len += 1; break;
+ }
+
+ outp = retval = malloc(len + 1);
+ if(!outp)
+ return NULL; /* perhaps one should do better error handling here */
+ for(inp = fn; *inp; ++inp)
+ switch(*inp)
+ {
+ case '\'': *outp++ = '\''; *outp++ = '\\'; *outp++ = '\'', *outp++ = '\''; break;
+ default: *outp++ = *inp; break;
+ }
+ *outp = 0;
+
+ return retval;
+}