Re: Command line processing in dcrt0.cc does not match Microsoft parsing rules

[Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>]

Greetings, Stephen Provine!

> On 2019-09-04 23:29, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> As standard on Unix systems, just add another level of quoting for each level of
>> interpretation, as bash will process that command line, then bash will process
>> the script command line.

> My mistake - I'm very aware of the quoting rules, yet in my test script for this
> scenario I forgot to quote the arguments. However, if POSIX rules are being
> implemented, there is still something I didn't expect. Here's my bash script:

> #!/bin/bash
> echo "$1"
> echo "$2" 
> echo "$3"

> And I invoke it like this from a Windows command prompt:

> C:\> bash -x script.sh foo bar\"baz bat
> + echo foo
> foo
> + echo 'bar\baz bat'
> bar\baz bat
> + echo ''

> Not expected. Called from within Cygwin, the behavior is correct:

Again, fully expected.

> $ bash -x script.sh foo bar\"baz bat
> + echo foo
> foo
> + echo 'bar"baz'
> bar"baz
> + echo bat
> bat

> Can you explain this difference?

CMD escape character is ^, not \

> The reason I ask is that if this worked,
> the way Go constructs the command line string would be just fine.

No.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Friday, September 6, 2019 23:33:46

Sorry for my terrible english...


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