What exactly is not intuitive? The fact that backslash is the escape character for paths (not sure where that is documented)? The fact that the Windows Installer ends all folders in backslashes (that is documented in the MSI SDK)?
-----Original Message----- From: Gerry Reno [mailto:gr...@verizon.net] Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 2:04 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] ExeCommand will not accept any path with spaces |ExeCommand='"[INSTALLDIR]\" "[INSTALLDIR]\"' Return='asyncWait' Adding an extra backslash works. But as I said, THIS is not intuitive and needs to be documented somewhere.| On 12/20/2013 04:48 PM, Rob Mensching wrote: > Your tests need to use a path with a backslash on it. For example: > > test.exe "c:\foo foo\bar\" "c:\baz baz\quuz\" > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gerry Reno [mailto:gr...@verizon.net] > Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 1:46 PM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] ExeCommand will not accept any path with > spaces > > Yes, agreed. The illustration was just of one of the many ways that were > tested. > > As I stated earlier, I tested both ways including moving the quote to the end. > > And the command line produces different results than WIX. > > I just got finished another battery of tests without calling cmd.exe and got > the exact same results where quoted arguments are not being handled correctly. > > I updated the bug with the results. There is a test.c program in there that > anyone can use to test with. > > > > On 12/20/2013 04:23 PM, John Cooper wrote: >> Yes. >> >> For example, (definitely NOT endorsing using cmd.exe to start executables): >> >> C:\>cmd.exe /c "c:\Program Files (x86)\orca"\orca.exe 'c:\Program' is >> not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program >> or batch file. >> >> C:\>cmd.exe /c c:\Program Files (x86)\orca\orca.exe 'c:\Program' is >> not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program >> or batch file. >> >> C:\>cmd.exe /c "c:\Program Files (x86)\orca\orca.exe" >> >> C:\> >> C:\>cmd.exe /c "c:\Program Files (x86)\orca\orca.exe" >> >> C:\> >> >> In the latter case, orca.exe starts. In the former, the error message is >> self-explanatory. >> >> Using forward slashes doesn't change the result: >> >> C:\>cmd.exe /c c:/Program Files (x86)/orca/orca.exe 'c:/Program' is >> not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program >> or batch file. >> >> C:\>cmd.exe /c "c:/Program Files (x86)/orca"/orca.exe 'c:/Program' is >> not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program >> or batch file. >> >> C:\>cmd.exe /c "c:/Program Files (x86)/orca/orca.exe" >> >> C:\> >> -- >> John Merryweather Cooper >> Build & Install Engineer - ESA >> Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.(r) >> Shawnee Mission, KS 66227 >> Office: 913-341-3434 x791011 >> jocoo...@jackhenry.com >> www.jackhenry.com >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Phill Hogland [mailto:phogl...@rimage.com] >> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 3:00 PM >> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] ExeCommand will not accept any path with >> spaces >> >> Aside from all the other good points which folks have made, if there was >> some reason to do the following: >> '/k "[INSTALLDIR]"/myprogram.exe' >> >> Is the second double quote above in the wrong place, and should be moved to >> the end of the path? >> '/k "[INSTALLDIR]/myprogram.exe"' >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/ExeComm >> a nd-will-not-accept-any-path-with-spaces-tp7591450p7591487.html >> Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> - >> -------- Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your >> business. 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