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nixpkgs.lib: Add escapeNixString

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Ryan Trinkle 2017-12-02 13:03:40 -05:00
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@ -219,6 +219,14 @@ rec {
*/ */
escapeShellArgs = concatMapStringsSep " " escapeShellArg; escapeShellArgs = concatMapStringsSep " " escapeShellArg;
/* Turn a string into a Nix expression representing that string
Example:
escapeNixString "hello\${}\n"
=> "\"hello\\\${}\\n\""
*/
escapeNixString = s: escape ["$"] (builtins.toJSON s);
/* Obsolete - use replaceStrings instead. */ /* Obsolete - use replaceStrings instead. */
replaceChars = builtins.replaceStrings or ( replaceChars = builtins.replaceStrings or (
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