shell-args

A simple set of functions for parsing a command line string into arguments and converting command line arguments into a correctly escaped string.

Many other npm modules offer this functionality however the only ones I could find only support unix style escaping and so do not work correctly for windows command lines.

This module exports bashShellParse, winShellParse, bashShellQuote and winShellQuote. It also exports shellQuote and shellParse which call the function correct for the current platform.

The parse functions accept a string and return an array of strings:

import { bashShellQuote } from "shell-args";

bashShellParse("hello there world"); // -> ["hello", "there", "world"]
bashShellParse("\"hello there\" world"); // -> ["hello there", "world"]
bashShellParse(`foo
test\\(\\)`); // -> ["foo", "test()"]

The quote functions accept an array of strings and return a string:

import { bashShellParse } from "shell-args";

bashShellQuote(["hello", "there", "world"]); // -> "hello there world"
bashShellQuote(["hello there", "world"]); // -> "\"hello there\" world"
bashShellQuote(["foo", "test()"]); // -> ["foo", "test\\(\\)"]