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| author | knu <knu@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e> | 2015-12-13 05:19:03 +0000 |
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| committer | knu <knu@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e> | 2015-12-13 05:19:03 +0000 |
| commit | 273d5004bec3138b6ca7fd17f4f12e3c2f2abf2f (patch) | |
| tree | b9b3c7d4f3759ea7efcce099355c8cd09a3a63a0 /lib | |
| parent | c53479ae8afa9c32966a38f6b754f8e31f130b96 (diff) | |
* lib/shellwords.rb (Shellwords#shellsplit): Document that this
method does not treat shell metacharacters as such.
git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@53070 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e
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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/shellwords.rb | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/shellwords.rb b/lib/shellwords.rb index 66092c8999..0030f0784f 100644 --- a/lib/shellwords.rb +++ b/lib/shellwords.rb @@ -64,6 +64,13 @@ module Shellwords # argv = Shellwords.split('here are "two words"') # argv #=> ["here", "are", "two words"] # + # Note, however, that this is not a command line parser. Shell + # metacharacters except for the single and double quotes and + # backslash are not treated as such. + # + # argv = Shellwords.split('ruby my_prog.rb | less') + # argv #=> ["ruby", "my_prog.rb", "|", "less"] + # # String#shellsplit is a shortcut for this function. # # argv = 'here are "two words"'.shellsplit |