Module

Shellwords

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This module is originally a port of shellwords.pl, but modified to conform to POSIX / SUSv3 (IEEE Std 1003.1-2001).

Examples: 

require 'shellwords'
words = Shellwords.shellwords(line)

or 

require 'shellwords'
include Shellwords
words = shellwords(line)
Public Methods
shellwords Split text into an array of tokens in the same way the UNIX Bourne shell does.
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