Shell-like lexical splitting of command lines into POSIX-style tokens, handling quotes and escapes; byte-oriented, efficient parsing implemented as a faithful, line-by-line transliteration of upstream behavior.
This is a Kotlin Multiplatform line-by-line transliteration port of comex/rust-shlex.
Original Project: This port is based on comex/rust-shlex. All design credit and project intent belong to the upstream authors; this repository is a faithful port to Kotlin Multiplatform with no behavioural changes intended.
This is an in-progress port. The goal is feature parity with the upstream Rust crate while providing a native Kotlin Multiplatform API. Every Kotlin file carries a // port-lint: source <path> header naming its upstream Rust counterpart so the AST-distance tool can track provenance.
The text below is reproduced and lightly edited from
https://github.com/comex/rust-shlex. It is the upstream project's own description and remains under the upstream authors' authorship; links have been rewritten to absolute upstream URLs so they continue to resolve from this repository.
Same idea as (but implementation not directly based on) the Python shlex module. However, this implementation does not support any of the Python module's customization because it makes parsing slower and is fairly useless. You only get the default settings of shlex.split, which mimic the POSIX shell: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html
This implementation also deviates from the Python version in not treating \r specially, which I believe is more compliant.
This crate can be used on either normal Rust strings, or on byte strings with
the bytes module. The algorithms used are oblivious to UTF-8 high bytes, so
internally they all work on bytes directly as a micro-optimization.
Disabling the std feature (which is enabled by default) will allow the crate
to work in no_std environments, where the alloc crate, and a global
allocator, are available.
The source code in this repository is Licensed under either of
at your option.
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.
dependencies {
implementation("io.github.kotlinmania:shlex-kotlin:0.1.1")
}./gradlew build
./gradlew testSee AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md for translator discipline, port-lint header convention, and Rust → Kotlin idiom mapping.
This Kotlin port is distributed under the same MIT license as the upstream comex/rust-shlex. See LICENSE (and any sibling LICENSE-* / NOTICE files mirrored from upstream) for the full text.
Original work copyrighted by the rust-shlex authors.
Kotlin port: Copyright (c) 2026 Sydney Renee and The Solace Project.
Thanks to the comex/rust-shlex maintainers and contributors for the original Rust implementation. This port reproduces their work in Kotlin Multiplatform; bug reports about upstream design or behavior should go to the upstream repository.
This is a Kotlin Multiplatform line-by-line transliteration port of comex/rust-shlex.
Original Project: This port is based on comex/rust-shlex. All design credit and project intent belong to the upstream authors; this repository is a faithful port to Kotlin Multiplatform with no behavioural changes intended.
This is an in-progress port. The goal is feature parity with the upstream Rust crate while providing a native Kotlin Multiplatform API. Every Kotlin file carries a // port-lint: source <path> header naming its upstream Rust counterpart so the AST-distance tool can track provenance.
The text below is reproduced and lightly edited from
https://github.com/comex/rust-shlex. It is the upstream project's own description and remains under the upstream authors' authorship; links have been rewritten to absolute upstream URLs so they continue to resolve from this repository.
Same idea as (but implementation not directly based on) the Python shlex module. However, this implementation does not support any of the Python module's customization because it makes parsing slower and is fairly useless. You only get the default settings of shlex.split, which mimic the POSIX shell: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html
This implementation also deviates from the Python version in not treating \r specially, which I believe is more compliant.
This crate can be used on either normal Rust strings, or on byte strings with
the bytes module. The algorithms used are oblivious to UTF-8 high bytes, so
internally they all work on bytes directly as a micro-optimization.
Disabling the std feature (which is enabled by default) will allow the crate
to work in no_std environments, where the alloc crate, and a global
allocator, are available.
The source code in this repository is Licensed under either of
at your option.
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.
dependencies {
implementation("io.github.kotlinmania:shlex-kotlin:0.1.1")
}./gradlew build
./gradlew testSee AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md for translator discipline, port-lint header convention, and Rust → Kotlin idiom mapping.
This Kotlin port is distributed under the same MIT license as the upstream comex/rust-shlex. See LICENSE (and any sibling LICENSE-* / NOTICE files mirrored from upstream) for the full text.
Original work copyrighted by the rust-shlex authors.
Kotlin port: Copyright (c) 2026 Sydney Renee and The Solace Project.
Thanks to the comex/rust-shlex maintainers and contributors for the original Rust implementation. This port reproduces their work in Kotlin Multiplatform; bug reports about upstream design or behavior should go to the upstream repository.