GeneralCommandLine does not properly handle arguments with \ at the end : IDEA-37024

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Project	IntelliJ IDEA
Priority	Critical
Type	Bug
Fix versions	No Fix versions
State	Fixed
Assignee	Eugene Zhuravlev
Subsystem	No subsystem
Affected versions	No Affected versions
Fixed in build	108.65

Created by Yegor Yarko
4 years ago (12 Feb 2007 23:04)
Updated by root
2 years ago (17 Jan 2010 20:41)
Jira: IDEADEV-15128
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IDEA-37024 GeneralCommandLine does not properly handle arguments with \ at the end

Issue is visible to: All Users

Property values are passed to java via -D parameter and surrounding the full string with quotes, however trailing "\" will escape the quote and, thus brake the command line.

e.g. while trying to mimic IDEA build, I set up jdk.home.idea_jdk to something like c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_08\ and got error: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: XP ...
for command line like:
java.exe ... "-Djdk.IDEA jdk.home=c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_08\" "-Dos.name=Windows XP" ...

Seems, we should consider various escaping issues...

Issue was resolved

Eugene Petrenko

21 Nov 2007 13:27

4 years ago

Actually under windows \" - means escaped quote thus command line becomes broken