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Bug #8028

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Shellwords.escape works incorrect under windows

Added by Shagabutdinov (Leonid Shagabutdinov) about 11 years ago. Updated about 5 years ago.

Status:
Rejected
Assignee:
-
Target version:
-
ruby -v:
ruby 2.0.0p0 (2013-02-24) [i386-mingw32]
[ruby-core:53162]

Description

Shellwords.escape works incorrect under windows (tested for Windows 7
x64), here is example:

Actual result:

irb(main):001:0> require 'shellwords'
=> true

irb(main):002:0> `echo #{Shellwords.escape( '123>' )} test` # should
echo "123> test", but echo nothing
=> ""

irb(main):003:0> File.read( 'test' ) # but writes file "test"
=> "123\\\n"

Expected result:

irb(main):001:0> `echo 132^> test` # the correct escape sequence, echoed
"123> test"
=> "132> test\n"

Tested for "ruby 2.0.0p0 (2013-02-24) [i386-mingw32]", ruby 1.9.3, but this bug can be found in earlier ruby versions as well.

Updated by jsc (Justin Collins) about 5 years ago

Shagabutdinov (Leonid Shagabutdinov) wrote:

Shellwords.escape works incorrect under windows (tested for Windows 7

I don't believe Shellwords is intended to work on Windows at all. According to the comments (https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/ee2ddf5411f51ea89a1569ea5d70b41cd4c6c7f2/lib/shellwords.rb#L3-L6):

# == Manipulates strings like the UNIX Bourne shell
#
# This module manipulates strings according to the word parsing rules
# of the UNIX Bourne shell.

Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) about 5 years ago

  • Description updated (diff)
  • Status changed from Open to Rejected

Escaping ways are various across shells, not only Windows.
Use system with an array, e.g., system('echo', '123>').

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