shlex

The shlex module provides a shell-like argument parser.

The core functionality is provided by github.com/u-root/u-root/pkg/shlex.

Functions

argv

argv(s string) []string

Split a command line according to usual simple shell rules. For example start --append="foobar foobaz" --nogood 'food' will parse into the appropriate argvs to start the command.

>>> shlex.argv("start --append=\"foobar foobaz\" --nogood 'food'")
["start", "--append=foobar foobaz", "--nogood", "food"]