diff --git a/src/System.Management.Automation/CoreCLR/CorePsPlatform.cs b/src/System.Management.Automation/CoreCLR/CorePsPlatform.cs
index 7ce0a44196..9171933bb5 100644
--- a/src/System.Management.Automation/CoreCLR/CorePsPlatform.cs
+++ b/src/System.Management.Automation/CoreCLR/CorePsPlatform.cs
@@ -367,65 +367,6 @@ namespace System.Management.Automation
             // TODO:PSL clean this up
             return 0;
         }
-
-        /// <summary>
-        /// This models the native call CommandLineToArgvW in managed code.
-        /// </summary>
-        internal static string[] CommandLineToArgv(string command)
-        {
-            StringBuilder arguments  = new StringBuilder();
-            int len                  = command.Length;
-            IList<string> returnList = new List<string>();
-            bool inquote             = false;
-            char current             = '\0';
-
-            for (int argIndex = 0; argIndex < len; argIndex++)
-            {
-                current = command[argIndex];
-
-                if (current.Equals('"'))
-                {
-                    // Treat anything in quotes as a single argument
-                    // Because C# treats quotes differently than C++, instead of counting the slashes
-                    // it makes more sense to count the quotes.
-                    inquote = !inquote;
-                    arguments.Append('"');
-                    continue;
-                }
-
-                // If we're inside a quote, add the current character and cycle through
-                if (inquote && !current.Equals('"'))
-                {
-                    arguments.Append(current.ToString());
-                    continue;
-                }
-
-                if (current.Equals("\\"))
-                {
-                    arguments.Append("\\");
-                    continue;
-                }
-
-                if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(current.ToString()))
-                {
-                    if (arguments.Length > 0)
-                    {
-                        returnList.Add(arguments.ToString());
-                        arguments.Clear();
-                    }
-                    continue;
-                }
-
-                // All other exclusion scenarios being exhausted, append the current character.
-                arguments.Append(current.ToString());
-            }
-
-            // add the final object to the arguments list
-            returnList.Add(arguments.ToString());
-            arguments.Clear();
-
-            return returnList.ToArray();
-        }
     }
 
     internal static class Unix
diff --git a/test/csharp/test_CorePsPlatform.cs b/test/csharp/test_CorePsPlatform.cs
index 80d3878918..2a6fa2d94a 100644
--- a/test/csharp/test_CorePsPlatform.cs
+++ b/test/csharp/test_CorePsPlatform.cs
@@ -255,112 +255,5 @@ namespace PSTests
             File.Delete(path);
             File.Delete(link);
         }
-
-        [Fact]
-        public static void TestCommandLineArgvReturnsAnElement()
-        {
-            string testCommand= "Today";
-
-            string[] retval = Platform.CommandLineToArgv(testCommand);
-
-            Assert.Equal(1, retval.Length);
-        }
-
-        [Fact]
-        public static void TestCommandLineArgvWWithSpaces()
-        {
-            string testCommand= "Today is a good day or is it";
-
-            string[] retval = Platform.CommandLineToArgv(testCommand);
-
-            Assert.Equal("Today", retval[0]);
-            Assert.Equal("is", retval[1]);
-            Assert.Equal("a", retval[2]);
-            Assert.Equal("good", retval[3]);
-            Assert.Equal("day", retval[4]);
-            Assert.Equal("or", retval[5]);
-            Assert.Equal("is", retval[6]);
-            Assert.Equal("it", retval[7]);
-        }
-
-        [Fact]
-        public static void TestCommandLineToArgvWTabsAreTreatedAsSpaces()
-        {
-            string testCommand = "Today \t is a good day";
-
-            string[] retval = Platform.CommandLineToArgv(testCommand);
-
-            Assert.Equal("Today", retval[0]);
-            Assert.Equal("is", retval[1]);
-            Assert.Equal("a", retval[2]);
-            Assert.Equal("good", retval[3]);
-            Assert.Equal("day", retval[4]);
-        }
-
-        [Fact]
-        public static void TestCommandLineToArgvWQuotesAreArgs()
-        {
-            string testCommand = "Today is \"a good\" day";
-
-            string[] retval = Platform.CommandLineToArgv(testCommand);
-
-            Assert.Equal(4, retval.Length);
-            Assert.Equal("Today", retval[0]);
-            Assert.Equal("is", retval[1]);
-            Assert.Equal("\"a good\"", retval[2]);
-            Assert.Equal("day", retval[3]);
-        }
-
-        [Fact]
-        public static void TestCommandLineToArgvWEvenNumberBackSlashes()
-        {
-            string test1 = "a\\b c d";
-            string test2 = "a\\b\\c d";
-            string test3 = "a \\b\\c\\d";
-            string test4 = "a\\\\\\b";
-            string[] retval;
-
-            retval = Platform.CommandLineToArgv(test1);
-
-            Assert.Equal(3, retval.Length);
-            Assert.Equal("a\\b", retval[0]);
-            Assert.Equal("c", retval[1]);
-            Assert.Equal("d", retval[2]);
-
-            retval = Platform.CommandLineToArgv(test2);
-
-            Assert.Equal(2, retval.Length);
-            Assert.Equal("a\\b\\c", retval[0]);
-            Assert.Equal("d", retval[1]);
-
-            retval = Platform.CommandLineToArgv(test3);
-
-            Assert.Equal(2, retval.Length);
-            Assert.Equal("a", retval[0]);
-            Assert.Equal("\\b\\c\\d", retval[1]);
-
-            retval = Platform.CommandLineToArgv(test4);
-
-            Assert.Equal(1, retval.Length);
-            Assert.Equal("a\\\\\\b", retval[0]);
-        }
-
-        [Fact]
-        public static void TestCommandLineToArgvwOddNumberWithBackSlashes()
-        {
-            string test1 = "a\\\"b";
-            string test2 = "a\\\\\\\"b";
-            string[] retval;
-
-            retval = Platform.CommandLineToArgv(test1);
-
-            Assert.Equal(1, retval.Length);
-            Assert.Equal("a\\\"b", retval[0]);
-
-            retval = Platform.CommandLineToArgv(test2);
-
-            Assert.Equal(1, retval.Length);
-            Assert.Equal("a\\\\\\\"b", retval[0]);
-        }
     }
 }