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Implement Shellwords.shellescape correctly for Windows

Added by abobrikovich (Alexander Bobrikovich) over 4 years ago. Updated over 4 years ago.

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Target version:
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[ruby-core:97611]

Description

shellwords module was originally designed and developed for *NIX, and currently works like this:

require 'shellwords'

Shellwords.shellescape("/home/me/test with space.txt")
# => "/home/me/test\\ with\\ space.txt"

Shellwords.shellescape("C:\Program Files")
# => "C:Program\\ Files"

I think it's a good opportunity to extend it to support Windows. According to [2], it looks like using quotations is the only option for paths used in a batch script that have space inside. I propose:

Shellwords.shellescape("C:\Program Files")
# => "\"C:\Program Files\""

Links

  1. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/naming-a-file
  2. https://superuser.com/a/962816/245944
  3. https://ss64.com/nt/syntax-esc.html
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