+#
+# 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 :