From 4a8ceca0e1650733c35f05e45e412174c78d3f69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nathaniel Landau <nate@natelandau.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 01:35:37 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] We now have a function to encode HTML special characters

---
 lib/sharedFunctions.sh | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/sharedFunctions.sh b/lib/sharedFunctions.sh
index 0731798..d9d3e82 100755
--- a/lib/sharedFunctions.sh
+++ b/lib/sharedFunctions.sh
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ function readFile() {
 # ------------------------------------------------------
 # usage: var=$(escape "String")
 # ------------------------------------------------------
-escape() { echo $@ | sed 's/[]\.|$(){}?+*^]/\\&/g'; }
+escape() { echo "${@}" | sed 's/[]\.|$(){}?+*^]/\\&/g'; }
 
 # needSudo
 # ------------------------------------------------------
@@ -520,6 +520,12 @@ htmlDecode() {
   echo "${1}" | sed -f "${SOURCEPATH}/htmlDecode.sed"
 }
 
+htmlEncode() {
+  # Encode HTML characters with sed
+  # Usage: htmlEncode <string>
+  echo "${1}" | sed -f "${SOURCEPATH}/htmlEncode.sed"
+}
+
 
 urlencode() {
   # URL encoding/decoding from: https://gist.github.com/cdown/1163649