shlex

Shell quoting and string splitting utilities.

Functions

Quote a string for shell safety.

Name	Type	Description
`obj`		value to quote (converted with `std.arg`

Str - The quoted string.

echo (quote "hello world")
# prints: 'hello world'

Split a shell-quoted string into tokens, returning an iterator.

Name	Type	Description
`string`	`Str`	string to split

Iter yielding each argument.

for arg = split "echo 'hello world'"
  echo $arg
done
# prints:
# echo
# hello world

Join an iterable of arguments into a shell-quoted string.

Name	Type	Description
`iterable`		iterable of values (converted with `std.arg`)

Str - Joined string with proper quoting.

echo $ join ["echo", "hello world"]
# prints: echo 'hello world'