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+/*
+    This file is part of the KDE libraries
+
+    Copyright (c) 2003 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
+
+    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+    modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
+    License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+    version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+    This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+    Library General Public License for more details.
+
+    You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License
+    along with this library; see the file COPYING.LIB.  If not, write to
+    the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
+    Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
+*/
+#ifndef _KSHELL_H
+#define _KSHELL_H
+
+#include <qstring.h>
+#include <qstringlist.h>
+#include "kdelibs_export.h"
+
+/**
+ * \namespace KShell
+ * Provides some basic POSIX shell and bash functionality.
+ * @see KStringHandler
+ *
+ * @since 3.2
+ */
+namespace KShell {
+
+    /**
+     * Flags for splitArgs().
+     */
+    enum Options {
+        NoOptions = 0,
+
+        /**
+         * Perform tilde expansion.
+         */
+        TildeExpand = 1,
+
+        /**
+         * Bail out if a non-quoting and not quoted shell meta character is encoutered.
+         * Meta characters are the command separators @p semicolon and @p ampersand,
+         * the redirection symbols @p less-than, @p greater-than and the @p pipe @p symbol,
+         * the grouping symbols opening and closing @p parens and @p braces, the command
+         * substitution symbol @p backquote, the generic substitution symbol @p dollar
+         * (if not followed by an apostrophe), the wildcards @p asterisk and
+         * @p question @p mark, and the comment symbol @p hash @p mark. Additionally,
+         * a variable assignment in the first word is recognized.
+         */
+        AbortOnMeta = 2
+    };
+
+    /**
+     * Status codes from splitArgs()
+     */
+    enum Errors {
+        /**
+         * Success.
+         */
+        NoError = 0,
+
+        /**
+         * Indicates a parsing error, like an unterminated quoted string.
+         */
+        BadQuoting,
+
+        /**
+         * The AbortOnMeta flag was set and a shell meta character
+         * was encoutered.
+         */
+        FoundMeta
+    };
+
+    /**
+     * Splits @p cmd according to POSIX shell word splitting and quoting rules.
+     * Can optionally perform tilde expansion and/or abort if it finds shell
+     * meta characters it cannot process.
+     *
+     * @param cmd the command to split
+     * @param flags operation flags, see Options
+     * @param err if not NULL, a status code will be stored at the pointer
+     *  target, see Errors
+     * @return a list of unquoted words or an empty list if an error occurred
+     */
+    KDECORE_EXPORT QStringList splitArgs( const QString &cmd, int flags = 0, int *err = 0 );
+
+    /**
+     * Quotes and joins @p args together according to POSIX shell rules.
+     *
+     * @param args a list of strings to quote and join
+     * @return a command suitable for shell execution
+     */
+    KDECORE_EXPORT QString joinArgs( const QStringList &args );
+
+    /**
+     * Same as above, but $'' is used instead of '' for the quoting.
+     * The output is suitable for splitArgs(), bash, zsh and possibly
+     * other bourne-compatible shells, but not for plain sh. The advantage
+     * is, that control characters (ASCII less than 32) are escaped into
+     * human-readable strings.
+     *
+     * @param args a list of strings to quote and join
+     * @return a command suitable for shell execution
+     */
+    KDECORE_EXPORT QString joinArgsDQ( const QStringList &args );
+
+    /**
+     * Quotes and joins @p argv together according to POSIX shell rules.
+     *
+     * @param argv an array of c strings to quote and join.
+     *  The strings are expected to be in local-8-bit encoding.
+     * @param argc maximal number of strings in @p argv. if not supplied,
+     *  @p argv must be null-terminated.
+     * @return a command suitable for shell execution
+     */
+    KDECORE_EXPORT QString joinArgs( const char * const *argv, int argc = -1 );
+
+    /**
+     * Performs tilde expansion on @p path. Interprets "~/path" and
+     * "~user/path".
+     *
+     * @param path the path to tilde-expand
+     * @return the expanded path
+     */
+    KDECORE_EXPORT QString tildeExpand( const QString &path );
+
+    /**
+     * Obtain a @p user's home directory.
+     *
+     * @param user The name of the user whose home dir should be obtained.
+     *  An empty string denotes the current user.
+     * @return The user's home directory.
+     */
+    KDECORE_EXPORT QString homeDir( const QString &user );
+
+}
+
+
+#endif /* _KSHELL_H */