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Everyone quotes command line arguments the wrong way (2011)

8 points| polm23 | 3 years ago |docs.microsoft.com

6 comments

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justin_oaks|3 years ago

The POSIX sh quoting rules seem much simpler.

It's quite the mess Microsoft has there.

Sceptique|3 years ago

"Everyone [...] the wrong way"

By Microsoft. What a bunch of douche.

navjack27|3 years ago

No, By: Daniel Colascione

smitty1e|3 years ago

Via https://www.asciitable.com :

DEC Desc

28 Separator

29 Group Separator

30 Record Separator

31 Unit Separator

Why not use some existing, non-printing characters to obviate all the weeping and gnashing of teeth?

hiyer|3 years ago

I pity the fool who has to use the command line on Windows. This is one of the many reasons why.

sys_64738|3 years ago

Reading M$ C code is painful with all those horrible M$ specific adds.