Not working when PATH have spaces! about fselect

[Dominiquini]

Thank so much for the issue!

Escaping on the Windows is a mess. Depending on what terminal you are using, cmd.exe or PowerShell, and what version of PowerShell exactly, it is a bit different.

First of all, please check if this (triple single quotes) works for you:

fselect.exe name from '''C:\Projects\test test\'''

It worked!

In case of cmd.exe single quotes should work:

fselect.exe name from 'C:\Projects\test test\'

It worked!

Nevertheless, there is a few bugs in lexer's code I got to fix, and, more importantly, document the usage of all those quotes.

But there is still the case that I could not make work in directories with space in WSL using bash!

Thanks

[Dominiquini]

You can make a new release with the fix (7e77c40)?

Thanks!

[jhspetersson]

Thank so much for the issue!

Escaping on the Windows is a mess. Depending on what terminal you are using, cmd.exe or PowerShell, and what version of PowerShell exactly, it is a bit different.

First of all, please check if this (triple single quotes) works for you:

fselect.exe name from '''C:\Projects\test test\'''

In case of cmd.exe single quotes should work:

fselect.exe name from 'C:\Projects\test test\'

Nevertheless, there is a few bugs in lexer's code I got to fix, and, more importantly, document the usage of all those quotes.

[jhspetersson]

Ok, so what about escaping on Linux or WSL?

The main point is to be able to pass the quotes to the command-line arguments somehow escaping them from the shell. This should work (quoting part of the string containing single quotes with double quotes):

fselect name from "'/home/user/test test/'"

Quoting the whole argument list with double quotes:

fselect "name from '/home/user/test test/'"

Or we can simply escape the single quotes:

fselect name from \'/home/user/test test/\'

[Dominiquini]

Ok, so what about escaping on Linux or WSL?

The main point is to be able to pass the quotes to the command-line arguments somehow escaping them from the shell. This should work (quoting part of the string containing single quotes with double quotes):

fselect name from "'/home/user/test test/'"

Quoting the whole argument list with double quotes:

fselect "name from '/home/user/test test/'"

Or we can simply escape the single quotes:

fselect name from \'/home/user/test test/\'

The samples that you provide worked. The problem with the escaping is that I loose the autocomplete feature from the terminal (on Windows and Linux).
As I saw a commit of yours that seemed to be related, I thought it was worth publishing it! Anyway, thank you!

Great project this yours!