Everyone quotes command line arguments the wrong way (2011)
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The POSIX sh quoting rules seem much simpler.
It's quite the mess Microsoft has there.
"Everyone [...] the wrong way"
By Microsoft. What a bunch of douche.
No, By: Daniel Colascione
Via https://www.asciitable.com :
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28 Separator
29 Group Separator
30 Record Separator
31 Unit Separator
Why not use some existing, non-printing characters to obviate all the weeping and gnashing of teeth?
I pity the fool who has to use the command line on Windows. This is one of the many reasons why.
Reading M$ C code is painful with all those horrible M$ specific adds.