From holli.holzer@gmail.com

good localtime()

I was told to write here after a conversation on irc. when i run the
following code under rakudo 2017.07 on windows 8.1

  shell qq[echo "foo"];

the output is

  \"foo"

which is incorrect. It should be

  "foo"

This bug effectively prevents from shelling out to a program while using
quoted strings as arguments.

tx for listening

From @stmuk

On Windows 10 rakudo star 2017.07 I get

\"foo\"
Proc.new(in => IO​::Pipe, out => IO​::Pipe, err => IO​::Pipe, exitcode =>
0, signal => 0, command => ["echo \"foo\""])

whereas on FreeBSD 10 I get

foo

only (no quotes or Proc.new structure)

S

On 29 July 2017 at 16​:29, Holli Holzer <perl6-bugs-followup@​perl.org> wrote​:

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good localtime()

I was told to write here after a conversation on irc. when i run the
following code under rakudo 2017.07 on windows 8.1

shell qq\[echo "foo"\];

the output is

\\"foo"

which is incorrect. It should be

"foo"

This bug effectively prevents from shelling out to a program while using
quoted strings as arguments.

tx for listening

--
4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott <steve.mynott@​gmail.com>

The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

From @stmuk

I don't think this is a bug in the shell command on windows since cmd.exe behaves differently to Bourne type shells.

UNIX
$ echo "foo"
foo

Windows
C​:\Windows\system32>echo "foo"
"foo"

From @stmuk

There does seem to be a quoting bug in Windows shell but none of the above examples show it.

See #​132183​: Insufficient debug messages from zef/perl6.bat when package build fails

I propose this ticket be closed.

From @zoffixznet

On Fri, 06 Oct 2017 09​:49​:54 -0700, steve.mynott+bitcard@​gmail.com wrote​:

I propose this ticket be closed.

No, there's definitely some bug exists. On 2017.07 Star, I get this (\x[22] is the double-quote char)​:

  C​:\Users\zoffix>perl6 -e "say qqx/echo \x[22]foo\x[22]/;"
  \"foo\"

While the presence of quotes is a thing of Windows's shell, looks like rakudo tries to escape the quotes (incorrectly?) and the slashes make it into the output

From @zoffixznet

Possibly introed by this commit​: MoarVM/MoarVM@05a7dc3