Subj : system.exec() and commands in double-quotes
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Apr 10 2025 17:14:39

  Re: system.exec() and commands in double-quotes
  By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Thu Apr 10 2025 04:42 pm

 >   Re: system.exec() and commands in double-quotes
 >   By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Thu Apr 10 2025 03:47 pm
 >
 >  >>>> 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
 >
 >  >  ph>> What if you do something silly and put the whole thing in one set
 >  > of
 >  >  ph>> quotes, then escape the quotes inside?
 >
 >  >> That seems to work..  Thanks for the suggestion.  And it seems to only
 > be
 >  >> necessary on Windows.
 >
 >  DM> Maybe share the code?
 >
 > It's failry simple, basically just adding double-quotes around the whole
 > command if you know the command has multiple sets of double-quotes.
 >
 > I pasted the section of code on Pastebin:
 >
 > https://pastebin.com/pPXfHKeP

Okay, so no "escaped quotes" are actually being passed to system(). I was confused by your reply to phigan.

The end result (passed to system()) looks like it would be:

""C:\Program Files\Path\To\Program" some-arg "some-arg""

That's pretty weird.

One nice thing about JavaScript is you don't have to escape the double-quotes if you inclose the string in single-quotes. So could probably get away without escaping anything.
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