isabella232 / shellwords-1

Manipulates strings with word parsing rules of UNIX Bourne shell

Shellwords

This module manipulates strings according to the word parsing rules of the UNIX Bourne shell.

The shellwords() function was originally a port of shellwords.pl, but modified to conform to the Shell & Utilities volume of the IEEE Std 1003.1-2008, 2016 Edition [1].

[1] IEEE Std 1003.1-2008, 2016 Edition, the Shell & Utilities volume

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'shellwords'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install shellwords

Usage

require 'shellwords'

argv = Shellwords.split('three blind "mice"')
argv #=> ["three", "blind", "mice"]

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/ruby/shellwords.