Re: [Mingw-users] running programs from MSYS with quotes

[Jim M. <jmi...@ya...>]

 windows uses ^ for most chars escape not \ but there is no escape for " and % for % this is a specification problem. complain to microsoft about it.



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> From: Yuri Kanivetsky <yur...@gm...>
>To: min...@li... 
>Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 3:11 PM
>Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] running programs from MSYS with quotes
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>If I understand you correctly, using single quotes is no better than using double quotes here. Both commands:
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>$ cmd //c '"cmd" /c echo test'
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>$ cmd //c "\"cmd\" /c echo test"
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>produce the same command line:
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>c:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c "\"cmd\" /c echo test"
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>And they doesn't do what they are supposed to do. The point here is to pass the following command line to the process:
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>c:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c ""cmd" /c echo test"
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>AFAIR, some programs, amongst which are cmd, start, hstart, treat their command line specially. When given things like `""cmd" /c echo test"`, they just ignore the outer quotes or treat the whole thing as one big quoted argument. So, is there a way to make it so that GetCommandLine() would return exactly this: e:\showargv.exe ""c:\Program Files\foo" /k echo foo" ?
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>> MSYS sh DTRT here,automatically inserting double quotes where needed, to keep arguments with embedded white space, or embedded special characters, intact.
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>To be honest, it looks like MSYS sh has too much magic in it. Generally, I prefer straightforward behavior and don't like when programs make up my mind for me. Because it usually makes things more complex than they should be. But I don't know the reasoning, so I might be evidently wrong here.
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>Regards,
>Yuri
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