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diff --git a/pkgs/profpatsch/execline/write-execline.nix b/pkgs/profpatsch/execline/write-execline.nix
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+{ pkgs, execlineb-with-builtins }:
+let
+  escape = ./escape.nix { inherit (pkgs) lib; };
+
+  # Write a list of execline argv parameters to an execline script.
+  # Everything is escaped correctly.
+  # TODO upstream into nixpkgs
+  writeExeclineCommon = writer: name: { readNArgs ? 0 }: argList: writer name ''
+    #!${execlineb-with-builtins}/bin/execlineb -s${toString readNArgs}
+    export EXECLINE_STRICT 2
+    ${escape.escapeExecline argList}
+  '';
+  writeExecline = writeExeclineCommon pkgs.writeScript;
+  writeExeclineBin = writeExeclineCommon pkgs.writeScriptBin;
+
+in {
+  inherit writeExecline writeExeclineBin;
+}