Split a string containing command-line parameters into a String[] in Java

Question

Similar to this thread for C#, I need to split a string containing the command line arguments to my program so I can allow users to easily run multiple commands. For exampl

Answer 1

If you need to support only UNIX-like OSes, there is an even better solution. Unlike Commandline from ant, ArgumentTokenizer from DrJava is more sh-like: it supports escapes!

Seriously, even something insane like sh -c 'echo "\"un'\''kno\"wn\$\$\$'\'' with \$\"\$\$. \"zzz\""' gets properly tokenized into [bash, -c, echo "\"un'kno\"wn\$\$\$' with \$\"\$\$. \"zzz\""] (By the way, when run, this command outputs "un'kno"wn$$$' with $"$$. "zzz").