From 04854c77498faa4d4930d87678a3e6927247154d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 12:48:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add quote and unquote functions.

---
 functions.config | 11 +----------
 functions.util   | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/functions.config b/functions.config
index 9a50de66..8e1ab95d 100644
--- a/functions.config
+++ b/functions.config
@@ -113,16 +113,7 @@ function config_strip() {
 		return ${EXIT_OK}
 	fi
 
-	if [ "${var:0:1}" = "\"" ]; then
-		var=${var:1}
-	fi
-
-	local last=$(( ${#var} - 1 ))
-	if [ ${last} -ge 0 ] && [ "${var:${last}:1}" = "\"" ]; then
-		var=${var:0:${last}}
-	fi
-
-	print "${var}"
+	unquote "${var}"
 }
 
 function config_write() {
diff --git a/functions.util b/functions.util
index 96b83b51..68fac1b3 100644
--- a/functions.util
+++ b/functions.util
@@ -33,6 +33,25 @@ function args() {
 	echo "$@" | xargs printf "%s\n"
 }
 
+function unquote() {
+	local var="$@"
+
+	if [ "${var:0:1}" = "\"" ]; then
+		var=${var:1}
+	fi
+
+	local last=$(( ${#var} - 1 ))
+	if [ ${last} -ge 0 ] && [ "${var:${last}:1}" = "\"" ]; then
+		var=${var:0:${last}}
+	fi
+
+	print "${var}"
+}
+
+function quote() {
+	print "\"%s\"" "$@"
+}
+
 # Print a pretty error message
 function error() {
 	echo -e " ${CLR_RED_B}ERROR${CLR_RESET}  : $@" >&2
-- 
2.47.2