shell_quote

privex.helpers.common.shell_quote(*args: str) → str

Takes command line arguments as positional args, and properly quotes each argument to make it safe to pass on the command line. Outputs a string containing all passed arguments properly quoted.

Uses shlex.join() on Python 3.8+, and a for loop of shlex.quote() on older versions.

Example:

>>> print(shell_quote('echo', '"orange"'))
echo '"orange"'