GLib – 2.0: Shell Utilities
Description: Reference for GLib-2.0: Shell Utilities

#### Shell Utilities

GLib provides the functions `g_shell_quote()` and `g_shell_unquote()` to handle shell-like quoting in strings. The function `g_shell_parse_argv()` parses a string similar to the way a POSIX shell (`/bin/sh`) would.

Note that string handling in shells has many obscure and historical corner-cases which these functions do not necessarily reproduce. They are good enough in practice, though.