export declare const patterns: {
    suffixComments: RegExp;
    prefixComments: RegExp;
    dash: RegExp;
    whitespace: RegExp;
};
/**
 * Split the given string into an argv
 *
 */
export interface Split {
    A: string[];
    endIndices: number[];
}
export declare const _split: (str: string, removeOuterQuotes?: boolean, returnIndices?: boolean, removeInlineOuterQuotes?: boolean, splitBy?: string, startIdx?: number, endIdx?: number) => Split | string[];
export declare const split: (str: string, removeOuterQuotes?: boolean, removeInlineOuterQuotes?: boolean, splitBy?: string, startIdx?: number, endIdx?: number) => string[];
/** Look for cmd1; cmd2 patterns */
export declare function semiSplit(command: string): string[];