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

Am 24.06.2021 um 21:09 schrieb Allin Cottrell: > 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. Aha?! Will test this on Windows as soon as it's propagated into the snapshots.