Is there an equivalent to the Ruby Shellwords module for the Windows shell?

Question

I need to construct Windows shell commandlines from arrays in Ruby. If I were using Bash, I could use the standard Shellwords module. Is there an equivalent to Shellwords for the Windows shell, which can safely transform an array to a commandline string?

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 08 '14 at 22:43

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I've settled on the following:

require 'os'
class String
  def ~
    if OS.windows?
      return '"' + self.gsub('"', '""') + '"'
    else
      return self.shellescape
    end
  end
end

which allows me to shellescape any string by doing

~"some string with cruft&! in it"

answered Jun 08 '14 at 22:43

retorquere

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should be noted that `os` comes from the os gem, which can be found here: https://github.com/rdp/os - while not a huge problem, it does add a dependency. There is this Question over here that discusses windows detection: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4871309/what-is-the-correct-way-to-detect-if-ruby-is-running-on-windows – amenthes Mar 24 '15 at 22:01

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 30 '14 at 09:20

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This seems to be a version of shellwords with windows support: https://github.com/larskanis/shellwords

Not upstream yet as far as I see.

answered Jun 30 '14 at 09:20

akostadinov

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 18 '11 at 13:26

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It appears to me there is in fact no Windows analogue to Shellwords unfortunately.

answered Apr 18 '11 at 13:26

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Is there an equivalent to the Ruby Shellwords module for the Windows shell?

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