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Shellwords is a utility for manipulating strings according to the word parsing rules of the UNIX Bourne shell. It is useful for safely constructing command line strings and parsing input into tokens. This package is ideal for applications that need to interact with shell commands or process shell-like input.

lurq health score
48/100
Confidence
proven
Weekly downloads
3,315,173
Latest version
1.1.1
Last release
Jul 11, 2025
License
MIT

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