Devolutions / Devolutions/UniGetUI

[IMPROVEMENT] Option to treat &ampersand as literal in cli path arguments

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Description

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### Describe the improvement

(not 100% sure whether this is a bug as I don't fully understand what the relevant syntax UniGet uses in this context since I couldn't find an escape char and a similar bug was already fixed https://github.com/Devolutions/UniGetUI/issues/3904)

When passing `--location` to WinGetCli, I'd like to have an option to treat `&` ampersand char as literal so that `--location "C:\Program Files\App&Name"` will use the `App&Name` as the directory name.

(It seems that currently UniGetUI uses some syntax that doesn't allow that, though I couldn't figure out how to escape it either, which should be possible in a syntax, `""a&b`&c^&d~&e\&'&'&&""` didn't work to produce a single `&` in the command-line to run box)

### Describe how this improvement could help users

Not worrying about `&`ampersands in their paths

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Start at the --location handling for WinGetCli and compare its argument parsing with issue #3904. Determine how the command-line-to-run box currently treats ampersands and define an option or escaping rule that preserves an ampersand in a path; done means a path such as C:\Program Files\App&Name reaches WinGetCli unchanged.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
csharp
Domain
cli, operating-systems
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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