Module `bytes`

Shlex and friends for byte strings.

This is used internally by the outer module, and may be more convenient if you are working with byte slices ([u8]) or types that are wrappers around bytes, such as OsStr:

#[cfg(unix)] {
    use shlex::bytes::quote;
    use std::ffi::OsStr;
    use std::os::unix::ffi::OsStrExt;

    // `\x80` is invalid in UTF-8.
    let os_str = OsStr::from_bytes(b"a\x80b c");
    assert_eq!(quote(os_str.as_bytes()), &b"'a\x80b c'"[..]);
}

(On Windows, OsStr uses 16 bit wide characters so this will not work.)

Structs

Quoter A more configurable interface to quote strings. If you only want the default settings you can use the convenience functions try_quote and try_join.
Shlex An iterator that takes an input byte string and splits it into the words using the same syntax as the POSIX shell.

Functions

join Convenience function that consumes an iterable of words and turns it into a single byte string, quoting words when necessary. Consecutive words will be separated by a single space.
quote Given a single word, return a string suitable to encode it as a shell argument.
split Convenience function that consumes the whole byte string at once. Returns None if the input was erroneous.
try_join Convenience function that consumes an iterable of words and turns it into a single byte string, quoting words when necessary. Consecutive words will be separated by a single space.
try_quote Given a single word, return a string suitable to encode it as a shell argument.