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shell-quote

v0.7.2 Growing

A Rust library for shell-quoting strings, e.g. for interpolating into a Bash script.

Apache-2.0 Edition 2021
EncodingFilesystem #escape#bash#zsh#fish#dash

Quick Verdict

  • โœ•Not updated for 1+ year
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 264 crates
  • โœ“Permissive license (Apache-2.0)

Security

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Downloads
1.1M
Dependents
264
Releases
11
Size
17KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

182.3K downloads in the last 30 days (6.1K/day), up 85% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

264 crates depend on shell-quote. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 6+ years old, shell-quote hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Compact crate

At 16KB, shell-quote is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include skim, starbase_shell, hk, anda, nebulous. When high-quality crates choose shell-quote, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 5/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 16/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 13/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 7/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 10/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
4K/day avg+133%
05K10K12/291/162/32/213/113/28

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.7.2
78%
v0.3.0
9%
v0.5.0
7%
v0.1.0
4%
v0.7.1
3%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["bstr", "bash", "sh", "fish"]

sh*bash*fish*

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
5
direct dependencies
Dependents
264
crates depend on shell-quote

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