[ruby-core:90871] [Ruby trunk Bug#8028][Rejected] Shellwords.escape works incorrect under windows

[nobu@ruby-lang.org]

Issue #8028 has been updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada).

Description updated
Status changed from Open to Rejected

Escaping ways are various across shells, not only Windows.
Use `system` with an array, e.g., `system('echo', '123>')`.

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Bug #8028: Shellwords.escape works incorrect under windows
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8028#change-76059

* Author: Shagabutdinov (Leonid Shagabutdinov)
* Status: Rejected
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
* ruby -v: ruby 2.0.0p0 (2013-02-24) [i386-mingw32]
* Backport: 2.4: UNKNOWN, 2.5: UNKNOWN, 2.6: UNKNOWN
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Shellwords.escape works incorrect under windows (tested for Windows 7
x64), here is example:


Actual result:
```
irb(main):001:0> require 'shellwords'
=> true

irb(main):002:0> `echo #{Shellwords.escape( '123>' )} test` # should
echo "123> test", but echo nothing
=> ""

irb(main):003:0> File.read( 'test' ) # but writes file "test"
=> "123\\\n"
```

Expected result:
```
irb(main):001:0> `echo 132^> test` # the correct escape sequence, echoed
"123> test"
=> "132> test\n"
```

Tested for "ruby 2.0.0p0 (2013-02-24) [i386-mingw32]", ruby 1.9.3, but this bug can be found in earlier ruby versions as well.





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