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

s6-quote-filter acts as a filter, quoting lines it reads on stdin and writing the quoted lines to stdout.

## Interface

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

- s6-quote 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

## 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

## 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.