Feature #16741
Updated by sawa (Tsuyoshi Sawada) about 4 years ago
`shellwords` module was originally designed and developed for *NIX, and currently works like this: **Reproduce process** ```ruby ```irb irb(main):002:0> require 'shellwords' => true irb(main):005:0> Shellwords.shellescape("/home/me/test with space.txt") # => "/home/me/test\\ with\\ space.txt" Shellwords.shellescape("C:\Program Files") # => "C:Program\\ Files" ``` **Expected result and the reason why you expect** I understand that `shellwords` module originally was designed & developed for *NIX but I think it's a good opportunity chance to extend it to support Windows. According to [2], it Windows too For batch looks like using quotations quotation is the only a single option according to [2] if we need it, for example for paths used in a batch script that have space inside. I propose: inside of it. Proposed implementation: ```ruby ```irb irb(main):004:0> Shellwords.shellescape("C:\Program Files") # => "\"C:\Program Files\"" ``` Current implementation: ```irb irb(main):004:0> 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