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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: 18745@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18745: 24.3; MS Windows, `call-process-shell-command' fails on	`shell-quote-argument'ed bat file with quoted args
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 09:50:02 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ppds4ig5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM-tV-_2WXhCjWh=N0YNuw-feZOVB5GEhhd1XAVY3wwiSV7e7g@mail.gmail.com>

> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 00:33:55 -0400
> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
> 
> >From emacs -Q, evaluating
> 
>   (call-process-shell-command (shell-quote-argument "c:/path with
> space/foo-bar.bat") nil t t (shell-quote-argument "x y"))
> 
> or the equivalent
> 
>   (call-process-shell-command "\"c:/path with space/foo-bar.bat\"" nil
> t t "\"x y\"")
> 
> gives
> 
>   'c:/path' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
>   operable program or batch file.
> 
> It also fails for paths without a space:
> 
>   (call-process-shell-command "\"c:/path-without-space/foo-bar.bat\""
> nil t t "\"x y\"")
> 
> gives
> 
>   'c:/path-without-space/foo-bar.bat" "x' is not recognized as an
> internal or external command,
>   operable program or batch file.

This is a Windows misfeature, not an Emacs bug: the CreateProcess
primitive fails like that when passed a command that is a batch file.
To work around, try using cmd.exe as the command, and the batch file
with arguments as its arguments, with "/c" prepended.





  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-16  6:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-16  4:33 bug#18745: 24.3; MS Windows, `call-process-shell-command' fails on `shell-quote-argument'ed bat file with quoted args Noam Postavsky
2014-10-16  6:50 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-10-16 13:47   ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-16 13:57     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-16 16:28   ` Noam Postavsky
2014-10-16 17:06     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-16 21:30       ` Noam Postavsky
2014-10-22  1:12         ` Noam Postavsky
2014-10-22 17:12           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-23  1:33             ` Noam Postavsky
2014-10-23 15:52               ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-25  9:16                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-25 14:03                   ` Noam Postavsky
2014-10-16 20:15     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-16 21:50       ` Noam Postavsky
2014-10-17  0:38         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-17  6:10           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-17  6:05         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-27 11:49 ` bug#18745: Juanma Barranquero
2015-10-27 19:14   ` bug#18745: Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-27 23:24     ` bug#18745: Juanma Barranquero
2015-10-28 16:01       ` bug#18745: Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-29  3:38         ` bug#18745: Juanma Barranquero
2015-10-29 16:17           ` bug#18745: Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-29 17:22             ` bug#18745: Juanma Barranquero
2015-10-30 14:25               ` bug#18745: Juanma Barranquero
2015-10-30 14:55                 ` bug#18745: Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-30 17:09                   ` bug#18745: Juanma Barranquero
2015-10-30 20:10                     ` bug#18745: Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-31 23:20                       ` bug#18745: Juanma Barranquero
2015-11-01 17:49                         ` bug#18745: Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-01 18:29                           ` bug#18745: Juanma Barranquero

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