Subj : system.exec() and commands in double-quotes
To   : Digital Man
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed Apr 09 2025 17:16:51

  Re: system.exec() and commands in double-quotes
  By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Tue Apr 08 2025 09:54 pm

 DM> No, the double-quotes won't be removed. system.exec() is just a very-thing
 DM> wrapper around system():

 DM> Did you escape the double-quotes in the JS string passed to system.exec()?
 DM> I think there's something else at play here.

I did a bit more investigation. Since you say system.exec() is a wrapper around system(), I'm wondering if there may be a bug in system().

It seems that the issue happens when there are multiple things in double-quotes.  I tried having it only run the converter program (so, the whole command was the fully-pathed executable in double-quotes), and that ran successfully.

In the command line I was trying to use, I have multiple things in double-quotes: The fully-pathed executable is first, then possibly some command-line parameters, and a source filename and an output filename.  The fully-pathed executable, source filename, and output filename are all within their own set of double-quotes (in case there are spaces in their paths), and it seems that's when this issue happens where the Windows command interpreter only seems to be seeing "C:\Program" as the executable and fails due to that - even though the executable filename is in double-quotes.

If I remove the double-quotes around the source filename & destination
filename, so that there's only one set of double-quotes in the command line
(around the executable), then it succeeds.

Nightfox

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