Garret,
while all of this is kind of intriguing on an academical level, it is
much more than you asked in your original question:
Now … what if I want to pass a single string "foo'bar" (note just
one single quote in the string) as a single string to my `main()`
method args array?
On 10/15/2023 9:24 AM, Garret Wilson wrote:
On 10/15/2023 1:31 AM, Alexander Kriegisch wrote:
…
Let us settle on only using double quotes to enclose arguments
containing spaces. Then, we do not need to escape single quotes and
can use them literally. But we do need to escape nested double
On 10/15/2023 1:31 AM, Alexander Kriegisch wrote:
…
Let us settle on only using double quotes to enclose arguments containing
spaces. Then, we do not need to escape single quotes and can use them
literally. But we do need to escape nested double quotes.
Let's make sure we don't confuse
Escape hell, part 3: Powershell. Similar to Cmd.exe, but additionally,
you need to use '--%' right after the 'mvn' command to stop PS from
parsing the parameters any further as PS commands or whatever. The full
command would be something like (my local testing example:
mvn --% -pl some-app
It seems as if today is not my day. First, I wrote a message in another thread
with tons of typos, making it look as if I am not just bad in typing but
actually unable to speak proper English. Now, I sent an incomplete message not
addressing the actual question. Sorry for that to everyone.
Let
Java CLI program arguments containing spaces are usually enclosed by
double quotes, so I would recommend to use:
-Dexec.args="one 'number two' three"
This works in both UNIX-like shells (say, Git Bash on Windows) and in the
Cmd.exe Windows shell, while
-Dexec.args='one "number two" three'
Here's a fun one for your weekend. As you know from (almost) the
beginning of time we could invoke a Java application using Maven using
the Maven Exec Plugin, as in the following (although Maven's `--quiet`
may be a recent addition):
```bash
mvn exec:java
