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 <[email protected]> wrote: > Sadly it did not. I've worked around it using the environment variables, > which do permit the escaping. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gary Gregory <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2021 16:22 > To: Commons Users List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [daemon] Escaping the colon > > Did that fix it? > > Gary > > On Tue, Aug 17, 2021, 03:28 Mark Thomas <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > > > Sent: Monday, August 16, 2021 19:17 > > > To: Commons Users List <[email protected]> > > > Subject: Re: [daemon] Escaping the colon > > > > > > What happens if you say: > > > > > > -Dfoo="bar;zar" > > > > > > Gary > > > > > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2021, 11:54 Gridinas, Mantas < > > [email protected]> > > > 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 > > >> > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > >
