This is a thin wrapper around the shellwords.pl package,
which comes preinstalled with Perl. This module imports a
single subroutine, shellwords(). The shellwords() routine
parses lines of text and returns a set of tokens using the
same rules that the Unix shell does for its command-line
arguments. Tokens are separated by whitespace, and can be
delimited by single or double quotes. The module also
respects backslash escapes.
PR: ports/50081
Submitted by: George Hartzell <hartzell@fruitfly.org>