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argument-vector

cmilhench13kMIT1.0.2

Split a string of command line options into and argv(argument vector) array

argv, parser, argument-vector, split, quote, quoted-value, spawn

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argument-vector

Split a string of command line options into and argv(argument vector) array.

This is perticularly handy for passing arguments to require('child_process').spawn

Install

$ npm install argument-vector --save

Usage

var parser = require('argument-vector')();
var argv = parser.parse('curl http://example.com --keepalive-time 5 --cookie msg="String with spaces" -XPOST');
//=> ['curl', 'http://example.com', '--keepalive-time', '5', '--cookie', 'msg="String with spaces"', '-XPOST']