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instance method

String#shellescape

str.shellescape => string

Escapes str so that it can be safely used in a Bourne shell command line.

See Shellwords.shellescape for details.

See also #setbyte #shellsplit #scrub! #size also in 4.1 · 4.0 · 3.4 · 3.2 · 3.1 · 3.0