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instance method

String#shellsplit

() -> ::Array[::String]
str.shellsplit => array

Splits str into an array of tokens in the same way the UNIX Bourne shell does.

See Shellwords.shellsplit for details.

See also #shellescape #size #setbyte #slice also in 4.1 · 4.0 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.1 · 3.0