# File lib/mail/core_extensions/shell_escape.rb, line 25 def escape_for_shell(str) # An empty argument will be skipped, so return empty quotes. return "''" if str.empty? str = str.dup # Process as a single byte sequence because not all shell # implementations are multibyte aware. str.gsub!(/([^A-Za-z0-9_\s\+\-.,:\/@])/n, "\\\\\\1") # A LF cannot be escaped with a backslash because a backslash + LF # combo is regarded as line continuation and simply ignored. str.gsub!(/\n/, "'\n'") return str end