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+#
+# shell_split.rb
+#
+
+require 'shellwords'
+
+module Puppet::Parser::Functions
+  newfunction(:shell_split, :type => :rvalue, :doc => <<-EOS
+Splits a string into an array of tokens in the same way the Bourne shell does.
+
+This function behaves the same as ruby's Shellwords.shellsplit() function
+  EOS
+  ) do |arguments|
+
+    raise(Puppet::ParseError, "shell_split(): Wrong number of arguments " +
+        "given (#{arguments.size} for 1)") if arguments.size != 1
+
+    string = arguments[0].to_s
+
+    result = Shellwords.shellsplit(string)
+
+    return result
+  end
+end
+
+# vim: set ts=2 sw=2 et :