From: Richard Lawrence <rwl@...>
Date: 2007-07-12T08:15:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with system() call and pipe

Doan, Alex wrote:
> I'm using system call and pipping the output to a log. Something funny
> happen when I have more then two escaped quotes and '>>' in my call. Can
> someone shed some light on the issue:
> 
> Case:
> command_to_execute = "\"c:/program files/cvs.exe\" -q export -r HEAD -d
> TEST \"1sks/src folder\" >> output.log"
> system( command_to_execute )
> 
> This call will error out stating that c:/program is not recognized. 

Isn't this because you need to escape the space, too?  so that
command_to_execute = "\"c:/program\ files/cvs.exe\" ..."

> Now if I remove the >>, the command work fine. 
To me, that's the weird thing here...