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-rw-r--r--src/shared/fileio.c4
-rw-r--r--src/shared/util.h6
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/shared/fileio.c b/src/shared/fileio.c
index b0ab780d77..cbb40c2379 100644
--- a/src/shared/fileio.c
+++ b/src/shared/fileio.c
@@ -738,11 +738,11 @@ static void write_env_var(FILE *f, const char *v) {
p++;
fwrite(v, 1, p-v, f);
- if (string_has_cc(p, NULL) || chars_intersect(p, WHITESPACE "\'\"\\`$")) {
+ if (string_has_cc(p, NULL) || chars_intersect(p, WHITESPACE SHELL_NEED_QUOTES)) {
fputc('\"', f);
for (; *p; p++) {
- if (strchr("\'\"\\`$", *p))
+ if (strchr(SHELL_NEED_ESCAPE, *p))
fputc('\\', f);
fputc(*p, f);
diff --git a/src/shared/util.h b/src/shared/util.h
index c5eadc97c0..b3187a9ea1 100644
--- a/src/shared/util.h
+++ b/src/shared/util.h
@@ -93,6 +93,12 @@
#define COMMENTS "#;"
#define GLOB_CHARS "*?["
+/* What characters are special in the shell? */
+/* must be escaped outside and inside double-quotes */
+#define SHELL_NEED_ESCAPE "\"\\`$"
+/* can be escaped or double-quoted */
+#define SHELL_NEED_QUOTES SHELL_NEED_ESCAPE GLOB_CHARS "'()<>|&;"
+
#define FORMAT_BYTES_MAX 8
#define ANSI_HIGHLIGHT_ON "\x1B[1;39m"