# Shellwords alias bug?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shellwords-alias-bug/125803>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [January 12, 2008, 5:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shellwords-alias-bug/125803 "2008-01-12T05:46:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Masahiro\_Kawato](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Masahiro\_Kawato](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Masahiro_Kawato)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 5:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shellwords-alias-bug/125803/1 "2008-01-12T05:46:00Z")

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$ ruby -v  
ruby 1.9.0 (2007-12-25 revision 14709) [i686-linux]

$ irb  
irb(main):001:0\> require ‘shellwords’  
=\> true  
irb(main):002:0\> Shellwords.shellescape(‘test string’)  
=\> “test\ string”  
irb(main):003:0\> Shellwords.escape(‘test string’)  
=\> [“test”, “string”]

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# Index: lib/shellwords.rb

— lib/shellwords.rb (revision 15003)  
+++ lib/shellwords.rb (working copy)  
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@  
module\_function :shellescape

class \<\< self

- alias escape shellsplit

- alias escape shellescape  
end

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