CommandArgumentParser()

static List parseLine(String untrimmedLine, int numTokensToCollect)

takes a String and tokenizes it according to posix-shell-like rules, meaning arguments are separated by non-escaped blanks or hyphens, and hyphens wrap tokens regardless of blanks, other hyphens or escaped hyphens within the wrapping hyphens. Example: "foo bar 123'456' 'abc\'def\\' ''" has 6 tokens: ["foo", "bar", "123", "456", "abc'def\", ""]

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untrimmedLine

numTokensToCollect - stop processing after so many tokens, negative means unlimited