On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, David A. Wheeler wrote:

This is a slightly tricky problem; comments welcome.  It'd be nice to see
a simple and relatively clean solution to the problem.  I think "use 
double-quotes when
pathnames contain spaces" is a plausible answer.

The POSIX-style shell tosses the double quotes at first point of use. Arguments must be escaped varying amounts of times to survive a given data path, and the data path may not be a fixed one.

I agree that Windows is even more difficult, particlarly when there is a POSIX to Windows translation layer.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

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