Windows and Linux shells treat different quotes differently, so that's
another thing to watch out for when asking questions and answering them ;-)
I have no idea what OS you are on and which one Mark assumed while
replying!
Gary
On Mon, Sep 6, 2021, 06:55 Gridinas, Mantas <mantas.gridi...@storebrand.no>
wrote:
> Sadly it did not. I've worked around it using the environment variables,
> which do permit the escaping.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>
> Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2021 16:22
> To: Commons Users List <user@commons.apache.org>
> Subject: Re: [daemon] Escaping the colon
>
> Did that fix it?
>
> Gary
>
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2021, 03:28 Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> > Please try again with single quotes rather than double quotes. i.e.
> >
> > -Dfoo='bar;zar'
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> > On 17/08/2021 07:43, Gridinas, Mantas wrote:
> > > I did test that prior writing the message. Result was the following:
> > >
> > > -Dfoo=bar
> > > zar
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>
> > > Sent: Monday, August 16, 2021 19:17
> > > To: Commons Users List <user@commons.apache.org>
> > > Subject: Re: [daemon] Escaping the colon
> > >
> > > What happens if you say:
> > >
> > > -Dfoo="bar;zar"
> > >
> > > Gary
> > >
> > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2021, 11:54 Gridinas, Mantas <
> > mantas.gridi...@storebrand.no>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi!
> > >>
> > >> I've come into a bit of a pickle. I'm trying to pass the following
> > >> value as my argument for a system property -Dfoo=bar;zar Which
> > >> results in the following usage of ++StartParams
> > >> ++StartParams=-Dfoo=bar;zar
> > >>
> > >> In my JVM I am using `System.getProperty("foo")` to read the the
> > >> expected value of "bar;zar", but instead procsrv.exe considers that
> > >> zar should be a different argument which in turn causes the
> > >> java.exe think that zar is the main class name for application
> > >> instead. How do I go about escaping the colon in startparams?
> > >>
> > >> Cheers!
> > >> // Mantas
> > >>
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