From a8d03417debaf23918cd8be8185628efa62032fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dietmar Maurer <dietmar@proxmox.com>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 11:06:15 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] add split_args helper

---
 PVE/Tools.pm | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/PVE/Tools.pm b/PVE/Tools.pm
index dddf1c0..2d0b727 100644
--- a/PVE/Tools.pm
+++ b/PVE/Tools.pm
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ use POSIX qw(EINTR EEXIST EOPNOTSUPP);
 use base 'Exporter';
 
 use IO::File;
+use Text::ParseWords;
 
 our @EXPORT_OK = qw(
 $IPV6RE
@@ -126,4 +127,11 @@ sub split_list {
     return @data;
 }
 
+# split an shell argument string into an array,
+sub split_args {
+    my ($str) = @_;
+
+    return $str ? [ Text::ParseWords::shellwords($str) ] : [];
+}
+
 1;
-- 
2.39.2