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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 |