Issue with argument string ending with `\`

[lucatrv]

Versions

ConEmu build: 210912 x32/x64 OS version: Windows 10 x64 Used shell version: Clink 1.1.45.1c3985

Problem description

When an argument string ends with \, and it is wrapped between " (this happens by default for paths containing spaces in Windows), it is passed as a string ending with ".

Steps to reproduce

1. Write a bash script which prints all input arguments with command echo $@
2. Run it passing a Windows path with spaces, for instance: bash script.sh "c:\test\path with spaces\"

Actual results

Output is c:\test\path with spaces"

Expected results

Output should be c:\test\path with spaces

[Maximus5]

You have quite an obsolete version. Have you tried newer builds?

[lucatrv]

That's the stable version included by default in Cmder. I now tried with the preview version 220418, and then with the latest alpha version 220807, and they all behave the same.

[chrisant996]

This is not a ConEmu or Cmder issue. This is part of Windows.

You are running bash script.sh "c:\test\path with spaces\" on Windows from a CMD shell. The bash is actually bash.exe which is a Windows wrapper program that starts the WSL and then runs the actual Linux bash.

On Windows, \" is an escaped quote.

See these articles for more information:

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/shellapi/nf-shellapi-commandlinetoargvw?redirectedfrom=MSDN
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/twistylittlepassagesallalike/everyone-quotes-command-line-arguments-the-wrong-way

To get the same command line processing as Linux, you would need to first start WSL explicitly, and then run bash from inside the Linux subsystem.

[lucatrv]

Ok thanks, I'm closing this issue