Shellwords provides functions to manipulate strings according to the word parsing rules of the UNIX Bourne shell. It is based on the Ruby module of the same name.
With npm:
npm install shellwords
With pnpm:
pnpm add shellwords
With Yarn:
yarn add shellwords
Shellwords exports the following functions, shown here in the TypeScript declaration file format.
/**
* Splits a string into an array of tokens in the same way the UNIX Bourne shell does.
*
* @param line A string to split.
* @returns An array of the split tokens.
*/
export declare const split: (line?: string) => string[];
/**
* Escapes a string so that it can be safely used in a Bourne shell command line.
*
* @param str A string to escape.
* @returns The escaped string.
*/
export declare const escape: (str?: string) => string;import { escape, split } from "shellwords";
split("foo 'bar baz'");
// ["foo", "bar baz"]
escape("What's up, yo?");
// 'What\\\'s\\ up,\\ yo\\?'shellwords is released under the MIT license. See LICENSE.