From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2009-03-20T11:30:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:22965] Re: [Bug #1304] Kernel#system bug

Hi,

At Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:42:11 +0900,
Borislav Stanimirov wrote in [ruby-core:22960]:
> To reproduce on Windows:
> Create a batch file with one argument in a folder that has a space in its name. In Ruby call: 
>         system('"c:\\your full path\\batchfile.bat" yourparam')
> 
> It will behave as if the quotations are missing. (Error: c:\your is not recognized as a command...)

It can't reproduce.

$ cat "tmp/foo bar/test.bat"
echo %0 %*

$ ./i386-mswin32/ruby -v -e 'bat=File.expand_path(ARGV[0]).tr("/", "\\"); p system(%["#{bat}" 1 2 3])' "tmp/foo bar/test.bat"
ruby 1.9.1p0 (2009-03-04 revision 22762) [i386-mswin32]
c:\Users\nobu\src\ruby\ruby-1.9.1>echo "c:\Users\nobu\src\ruby\ruby-1.9.1\tmp\foo bar\test.bat" 1 2 3
"c:\Users\nobu\src\ruby\ruby-1.9.1\tmp\foo bar\test.bat" 1 2 3
true

-- 
Nobu Nakada