Support quoted components in Windows %PATH%
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Description
- Your Windows build number: 10.0.15063
- What's going wrong: When invoking
bashfrom a windows command prompt, the translation of the windows PATH environment variable is befuddled by quotes and/or spaces.
- Quoted paths in the PATH are dropped from bash's PATH :
C:\Users\nonpriv>path c:\Windows\System32;"c:\Program Files\nodejs"
C:\Users\nonpriv>node -v
v6.10.3
C:\Users\nonpriv>bash -c printenv | findstr PATH
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/mnt/c/Windows/System32
C:\Users\nonpriv>bash -c node -v
-v: node: command not found
- Non-quoted paths containing spaces do appear inside the bash environment, but don't work properly:
C:\Users\nonpriv>path c:\Windows\System32;c:\Program Files\nodejs
C:\Users\nonpriv>bash -c printenv | findstr PATH
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/mnt/c/Windows/System32:/mnt/c/Program Files/nodejs
C:\Users\nonpriv>bash -c node -v
-v: node: command not found
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Reproduce both quoted and unquoted PATH cases from a Windows command prompt using the provided path, bash, printenv, findstr, and node commands. Compare the resulting PATH and node lookup behavior; done means quoted and space-containing Windows PATH components are preserved and node -v works from bash. No source file or test is named in the issue.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- bash
- Domain
- cli, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100