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[Home] Shell alias values are not properly quoted

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr>

Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2023 07:58:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: [Home] Shell alias values are not properly quoted
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2023 09:57:14 +0200

Hi!

As Ekaitz reported on Mastodon, shell alias values are not properly
quoted, which causes problem when an alias value contains double-quotes
for instance:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(define (bash-serialize-aliases field-name val)
  #~(string-append
     #$@(map
         (match-lambda
           ((key . #f)
            "")
           ((key . #t)
            #~(string-append "alias " #$key "\n"))
           ((key . value)
            #~(string-append "alias " #$key "=\"" #$value "\"\n")))
         val)))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

The solution is to borrow and factorize the code of
‘environment-variable-shell-definitions’, which does it right.

Ludo’.
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