Part 1: A Working Answer
A Working One-Liner (Quoted For Use By Docker)
getProcessDataDef='shellQuoteWordsDef='"'"'shellQuoteWords() { sq="'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"; dq='"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'; for arg; do printf "'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'%s'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"' " "$(printf '"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'%s\n'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"' "$arg" | sed -e "s@${sq}@${sq}${dq}${sq}${dq}${sq}@g")"; done; printf '"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'\n'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'; }'"'"'; shellQuoteNullSeparatedStream() { xargs -0 sh -c "${shellQuoteWordsDef};"'"'"' shellQuoteWords "$@"'"'"' _; }; getProcessData() { systick=$(getconf CLK_TCK); for c in /proc/*/cmdline; do d=${c%/*}; pid=${d##*/}; name=$(awk '"'"'/^Name:/ { print $2 }'"'"' <"$d"/status); uid=$(awk '"'"'/^Uid:/ { print $2 }'"'"' <"$d"/status); pwent=$(getent passwd "$uid"); user=${pwent%%:*}; cmdline=$(shellQuoteNullSeparatedStream <"$c"); starttime=$(awk -v systick="$systick" '"'"'{print int($22 / systick)}'"'"' "$d"/stat); uptime=$(awk '"'"'{print int($1)}'"'"' /proc/uptime); elapsed=$((uptime-starttime)); echo "$pid $user $elapsed $cmdline"; done; }; getProcessData'
sh -c "$getProcessDataDef" # or docker exec <container> sh -c "$getProcessDataDef"
A Working One-Liner (Before Quoting/Escaping)
shellQuoteWordsDef='shellQuoteWords() { sq="'"'"'"; dq='"'"'"'"'"'; for arg; do printf "'"'"'%s'"'"' " "$(printf '"'"'%s\n'"'"' "$arg" | sed -e "s@${sq}@${sq}${dq}${sq}${dq}${sq}@g")"; done; printf '"'"'\n'"'"'; }'; shellQuoteNullSeparatedStream() { xargs -0 sh -c "${shellQuoteWordsDef};"' shellQuoteWords "$@"' _; }; getProcessData() { systick=$(getconf CLK_TCK); for c in /proc/*/cmdline; do d=${c%/*}; pid=${d##*/}; name=$(awk '/^Name:/ { print $2 }' <"$d"/status); uid=$(awk '/^Uid:/ { print $2 }' <"$d"/status); pwent=$(getent passwd "$uid"); user=${pwent%%:*}; cmdline=$(shellQuoteNullSeparatedStream <"$c"); starttime=$(awk -v systick="$systick" '{print int($22 / systick)}' "$d"/stat); uptime=$(awk '{print int($1)}' /proc/uptime); elapsed=$((uptime-starttime)); echo "$pid $user $elapsed $cmdline"; done; }; getProcessData "$@"
What Went Into That One-Liner
shellQuoteWordsDef='shellQuoteWords() { sq="'"'"'"; dq='"'"'"'"'"'; for arg; do printf "'"'"'%s'"'"' " "$(printf '"'"'%s\n'"'"' "$arg" | sed -e "s@${sq}@${sq}${dq}${sq}${dq}${sq}@g")"; done; printf '"'"'\n'"'"'; }'
shellQuoteNullSeparatedStream() {
xargs -0 sh -c "${shellQuoteWordsDef};"' shellQuoteWords "$@"' _
}
getProcessData() {
systick=$(getconf CLK_TCK)
for c in /proc/*/cmdline; do
d=${c%/*}; pid=${d##*/}
name=$(awk '/^Name:/ { print $2 }' <"$d"/status)
uid=$(awk '/^Uid:/ { print $2 }' <"$d"/status)
pwent=$(getent passwd "$uid")
user=${pwent%%:*}
cmdline=$(shellQuoteNullSeparatedStream <"$c")
starttime=$(awk -v systick="$systick" '{print int($22 / systick)}' "$d"/stat)
uptime=$(awk '{print int($1)}' /proc/uptime)
elapsed=$((uptime-starttime))
echo "$pid $user $elapsed $cmdline"
done
}
What Went Into The Shell-Quoting Helper Used By That One-Liner
To allow easier reading and editing, the function stringified above looks like:
# This is the function we're including in our code passed to xargs in-band above:
shellQuoteWords() {
sq="'"; dq='"'
for arg; do
printf "'%s' " "$(printf '%s\n' "$arg" | sed -e "s@${sq}@${sq}${dq}${sq}${dq}${sq}@g")"
done
printf '\n'
}
Part 2: How That Answer Was Created
Python has an excellent shlex.quote()
function (or pipes.quote()
in Python 2) that can be used to generate a shell-quoted version of a string. In this context, that can be used as follows:
Python 3.7.6 (default, Feb 27 2020, 15:15:00)
[Clang 7.1.0 (tags/RELEASE_710/final)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> s = r'''
... shellQuoteWords() {
... sq="'"; dq='"'
... for arg; do
... printf "'%s' " "$(printf '%s\n' "$arg" | sed -e "s@${sq}@${sq}${dq}${sq}${dq}${sq}@g")"
... done
... printf '\n'
... }
... '''
>>> import shlex
>>> print(shlex.quote(s))
'
shellQuoteWords() {
sq="'"'"'"; dq='"'"'"'"'"'
for arg; do
printf "'"'"'%s'"'"' " "$(printf '"'"'%s\n'"'"' "$arg" | sed -e "s@${sq}@${sq}${dq}${sq}${dq}${sq}@g")"
done
printf '"'"'\n'"'"'
}
'
That result is itself a perfectly valid string in shell. That is to say, one can run:
s='
shellQuoteWords() {
sq="'"'"'"; dq='"'"'"'"'"'
for arg; do
printf "'"'"'%s'"'"' " "$(printf '"'"'%s\n'"'"' "$arg" | sed -e "s@${sq}@${sq}${dq}${sq}${dq}${sq}@g")"
done
printf '"'"'\n'"'"'
}
'
eval "$s"
shellQuoteWords "hello world" 'hello world' "hello 'world'" 'hello "world"'
...and get completely valid output.
The same process was followed to generate a string that evaluated to the definition of getProcessData
.