c-shquote

POSIX Shell Compatible Argument Parser

The c-shquote project is a standalone implementation of POSIX Shell compatible argument parsing written in Standard ISO-C11. To use c-shquote, include c-shquote.h and link to the libcshquote.so library. A pkg-config entry is provided as well. For API documentation, see the c-shquote.h header file, as well as the docbook comments for each function.

Project

• Website: https://c-util.github.io/c-shquote
• Bug Tracker: https://github.com/c-util/c-shquote/issues

Requirements

The requirements for this project are:

• libc (e.g., glibc >= 2.16)

At build-time, the following software is required:

• meson >= 0.60
• pkg-config >= 0.29

Build

The meson build-system is used for this project. Contact upstream documentation for detailed help. In most situations the following commands are sufficient to build and install from source:

mkdir build
cd build
meson setup ..
ninja
meson test
ninja install

No custom configuration options are available.

Repository:

• web: https://github.com/c-util/c-shquote
• https: https://github.com/c-util/c-shquote.git
• ssh: git@github.com:c-util/c-shquote.git

License:

• Apache-2.0 OR LGPL-2.1-or-later
• See AUTHORS file for details.