[Gretl-devel] Re: shell escape on Windows: issue with quited path strings

On Thu, 24 Jun 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Am 24.06.2021 um 02:38 schrieb Allin Cottrell: >> >> <windows> >> C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c "c:\users\cottrell\printarg.exe" \ >> "foo" 1>"c:\users\cottrell\print.out" >> 'c:\users\cottrell\printarg.exe" "foo' is not recognized as an internal >> or external command, operable program or batch file. >> </windows> I found a discussion of this on stackoverflow. The weird and wonderful way of getting this to work is to pass the /s flag to cmd.exe and wrap the entire command line in an additional pair of quotes: cmd.exe /s /c ""some.exe" "some arg" > "some out"" That's now in git.