top | item 13264344 (no title) zkhalique | 9 years ago Oh brother, this is one of the reasons UNIX was much more developer-friendly. discuss order hn newest agentgt|9 years ago Actually Bash does have some issues with command line arguments if doing variable expansion. For example in Java apps it is actually fairly difficult to pass -DsomeParameter="something with a space in it" if doing variable expansion. marcosdumay|9 years ago But it's bash that has those issues, not the OS.If it's an issue for you on Linux, you can always run a python shell and spawn your process there. On Windows you can't. load replies (1) kbp|9 years ago Could you clarify what you mean? What's wrong with -DsomeParameter="$var"? Or am I misunderstanding? load replies (2) unknown|9 years ago [deleted]
agentgt|9 years ago Actually Bash does have some issues with command line arguments if doing variable expansion. For example in Java apps it is actually fairly difficult to pass -DsomeParameter="something with a space in it" if doing variable expansion. marcosdumay|9 years ago But it's bash that has those issues, not the OS.If it's an issue for you on Linux, you can always run a python shell and spawn your process there. On Windows you can't. load replies (1) kbp|9 years ago Could you clarify what you mean? What's wrong with -DsomeParameter="$var"? Or am I misunderstanding? load replies (2) unknown|9 years ago [deleted]
marcosdumay|9 years ago But it's bash that has those issues, not the OS.If it's an issue for you on Linux, you can always run a python shell and spawn your process there. On Windows you can't. load replies (1)
kbp|9 years ago Could you clarify what you mean? What's wrong with -DsomeParameter="$var"? Or am I misunderstanding? load replies (2)
agentgt|9 years ago
marcosdumay|9 years ago
If it's an issue for you on Linux, you can always run a python shell and spawn your process there. On Windows you can't.
kbp|9 years ago
unknown|9 years ago
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