[MSHARED-832] Cannot invoke maven from path with parentheses on Windows

[jira-importer]

Anton Krylov opened MSHARED-832 and commented

When M2_HOME is set to a path with parentheses (in this case C:\work\lol(1)\maven), the following command is generated on windows:

cmd.exe /X /C "C:\work\lol(1)\maven\bin\mvn.cmd -B -e -V compile"

This command fails, saying that C:\work\lol is not a known command

When a space is added to the path, the path gets escaped, and the command runs successfully.

It looks like more characters need to be escaped on some platforms

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Affects: maven-invoker-2.2

Issue Links:

• MSHARED-765 Password not escaped (on windows?)

1 votes, 3 watchers

[jira-importer]

Sylwester Lachiewicz commented

First, it requires change in shared-utils

[jira-importer]

Elliotte Rusty Harold commented

Problem is likely in Shell.quoteOneItem and can be tested from Shell.getCommandLine which returns quoted arguments

[jira-importer]

Elliotte Rusty Harold commented

I can't immediately put my finger on any reference that explains which characters need to be escaped on Windows command lines and why. Anyone have that handy?