/**
 * Tokenizes the arguments string into an array of strings, supporting quoted
 * values and escaped characters.
 * Converted from: https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/c29d53c5cfc63c5a876084e788d70c9e87bed880/src/node_options.cc#L1401
 *
 * @param input - The arguments string to be tokenized.
 * @returns An array of strings with the tokenized arguments.
 */
export declare const tokenizeArgs: (input: string) => string[];
/**
 * Stringify the arguments to be used in a command line. It will ignore any
 * argument that has a value of `undefined`.
 *
 * @param args - The arguments to be stringified.
 * @returns A string with the arguments.
 */
export declare function formatNodeOptions(args: Record<string, string | boolean | undefined>): string;
/**
 * Get the node options from the `NODE_OPTIONS` environment variable and parse
 * them into an object without the inspect options.
 *
 * @returns An object with the parsed node options.
 */
export declare function getParsedNodeOptionsWithoutInspect(): {
    [longOption: string]: string | boolean | undefined;
};
/**
 * Get the node options from the `NODE_OPTIONS` environment variable and format
 * them into a string without the inspect options.
 *
 * @returns A string with the formatted node options.
 */
export declare function getFormattedNodeOptionsWithoutInspect(): string;
/**
 * Returns the package registry using the user's package manager. The URL will have a trailing slash.
 *
 * @param baseDir - The base directory to detect the package manager from.
 * @returns The package registry URL with a trailing slash.
 * @throws Will throw an error if the package manager cannot be detected or if the registry cannot be retrieved.
 */
export declare function getRegistry(baseDir?: string): Promise<string>;