This distribution contains the String::ShellQuote module, plus a command-line interface to it. It contains some functions which are useful for quoting strings which are going to pass through the shell or a shell-like object. It is useful for doing robust tool programming, particularly when dealing with files whose names contain white space or shell globbing characters.

To build it, run:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

For more detailed instructions see "man perlmodinstall", "perldoc perlmodinstall", or http://www.cpan.org/modules/INSTALL.html.

The documentation is embeded in the module, use

perldoc ShellQuote.pm

to read it before installation.

Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>

Copyright (c) 1997 Roderick Schertler. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

$Id: README,v 1.4 2005/05/03 10:53:33 roderick Exp $