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diff doc/recipes.txt @ 671:7a8ddf54f012
0.6dev: Changing Windows `CommandLine.execute()` to not go through a shell. This makes execution consistent across platforms, and also fixes the quoting and escaping issues reported in #441. Also adds proper documentation for quoting and escaping.
| author | osimons |
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| date | Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:20:09 +0000 |
| parents | 294641e84e89 |
| children | 0c4fec90c8e2 |
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--- a/doc/recipes.txt +++ b/doc/recipes.txt @@ -112,3 +112,16 @@ +-----------+------------+ | ``'`` | ``'`` | +-----------+------------+ + +If needed, most commands use regular shell rules to split parts of the input - +typically like ``args`` input for ``sh:exec`` command. Double-quotes +(``"``) can be used to mark the start and end if any sub-parts contain +whitespace, alternatively ``'\'`` can be used to escape whitespace or any other +character that carries meaning as part of input - including double-quotes and +backslash itself: + +.. code-block:: xml + + <sh:exec file="echo" args="o\\ne "4 2" \"hi\ there\""/> + +This will pass 3 arguments: ``o\ne`` + ``4 2`` + ``"hi there"``.