S6-QUOTE-FILTER(1)

NAME
s6-quote-filter - act as a filter, quoting lines read on stdin and writing the quoted lines to stdout

SYNOPSIS
s6-quote-filter [-u] [-d delim]

DESCRIPTION
s6-quote-filter reads lines on stdin; it quotes every line, putting it inside double quotes and escaping all dubious characters.

It writes the quoted strings to stdout.

It exits 0 on EOF.

Quoted strings are guaranteed to be pure printable ASCII, without control characters.

Quoted strings can be unquoted via the s6-unquote(1) or s6-unquote-filter(1) programs.

OPTIONS

-u  Do not put read lines inside double quotes, only escape characters if needed.

-d delim
    Use the first character of delim as a quote character, instead of double quotes.

EXIT STATUS

111 Temporary error.

100 Permanent error, such as a misuse.

127 Unable to execute program - not found.

126 Unable to execute program - other reason.

SEE ALSO
s6-basename(1), s6-cat(1), s6-chmod(1), s6-chown(1), s6-clock(1), s6-cut(1), s6-dirname(1), s6-dumpenv(1), s6-echo(1), s6-env(1), s6-expr(1), s6-false(1), s6-format-filter(1), s6-grep(1), s6-head(1), s6-hiercopy(1), s6-linkname(1), s6-ln(1), s6-ls(1), s6-maximumtime(1), s6-mkdir(1), s6-mkfifo(1), s6-nice(1), s6-nuke(1), s6-pause(1), s6-printenv(1), s6-quote(1), s6-rename(1), s6-rmrf(1), s6-seq(1), s6-sleep(1), s6-sort(1), s6-sync(1), s6-tai64ndiff(1), s6-tail(1), s6-touch(1), s6-true(1), s6-uniquename(1), s6-unquote(1), s6-unquote-filter(1), s6-update-symlinks(1), seekablepipe(1)

This man page is ported from the authoritative documentation at: https://skarnet.org/software/s6-portable-utils/s6-quote-filter.html

AUTHORS
Laurent Bercot Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> (man page port)