diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index f5acdfa3..a738821c 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1733,6 +1733,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "lazy_static",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "shell-escape"
+version = "0.1.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "45bb67a18fa91266cc7807181f62f9178a6873bfad7dc788c42e6430db40184f"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "shell-words"
 version = "1.1.0"
@@ -2760,6 +2766,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "ratatui",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
+ "shell-escape",
  "shell-words",
  "syntect",
  "tokio",
diff --git a/yazi-plugin/Cargo.toml b/yazi-plugin/Cargo.toml
index 35bce019..0f5fe645 100644
--- a/yazi-plugin/Cargo.toml
+++ b/yazi-plugin/Cargo.toml
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ parking_lot   = "^0"
 ratatui       = "^0"
 serde         = "^1"
 serde_json    = "^1"
+shell-escape  = "^0"
 shell-words   = "^1"
 syntect       = { version = "^5", default-features = false, features = [ "parsing", "plist-load", "regex-onig" ] }
 tokio         = { version = "^1", features = [ "parking_lot", "rt-multi-thread" ] }
diff --git a/yazi-plugin/src/utils/text.rs b/yazi-plugin/src/utils/text.rs
index 87877293..a914e501 100644
--- a/yazi-plugin/src/utils/text.rs
+++ b/yazi-plugin/src/utils/text.rs
@@ -8,6 +8,17 @@ use super::Utils;
 
 impl Utils {
 	pub(super) fn text(lua: &Lua, ya: &Table) -> mlua::Result<()> {
+		ya.set(
+			"quote",
+			lua.create_function(|_, s: mlua::String| {
+				#[cfg(unix)]
+				let s = shell_escape::unix::escape(s.to_str()?.into());
+				#[cfg(windows)]
+				let s = shell_escape::windows::escape(s.to_str()?.into());
+				Ok(s.into_owned())
+			})?,
+		)?;
+
 		ya.set(
 			"truncate",
 			lua.create_function(|_, (text, max): (mlua::String, usize)| {
@@ -35,19 +46,6 @@ impl Utils {
 			lua.create_function(|_, mime: mlua::String| Ok(mime_valid(mime.as_bytes())))?,
 		)?;
 
-		ya.set(
-			"shell_join",
-			lua.create_function(|_, table: Table| {
-				let mut s = String::new();
-				for v in table.sequence_values::<mlua::String>() {
-					s.push_str(shell_words::quote(v?.to_str()?).as_ref());
-					s.push(' ');
-				}
-				s.pop();
-				Ok(s)
-			})?,
-		)?;
-
 		Ok(())
 	}
 }