s6-portable-utils: the s6-quote program
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# The `s6-quote` program

s6-quote quotes a string and writes it to stdout.

## Interface

         s6-quote [ -n ] [ -u ] [ -d delim ] string

- s6-quote quotes string, putting it inside double quotes and escaping all dubious characters
- It writes the quoted string to stdout and exits 0

## Options

- `-n` : do not print a trailing newline
- `-u` : do not put string inside double quotes, only escape characters if needed
- `-d` delim : use the first character of delim as a quote character, instead of double quotes

## Notes

- Quoted strings are guaranteed to be pure printable ASCII, without control characters.
- Quoted strings can be unquoted via the s6-unquote or s6-unquote-filter programs.
- Quoted strings are suitable for interpretation by execlineb.