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Solution to apostrophes within filenames used in shell commands?

See original GitHub issue

Node version (or tell us if you’re using electron or some other framework):

v10.15.3

ShellJS version (the most recent version/Github branch you see the bug on):

“shelljs”: “^0.8.3”,

Operating system:

Windows 10

Description of the bug:

Apostrophes in filenames causing this error: Syntax Error "(" unexpected

Example ShellJS command to reproduce the error:

nice -n 10 HandBrakeCLI -i '/home/haveagitgat/Desktop/Input/Test's.mp4' -o '/home/haveagitgat/Desktop/Output/Test's.mp4' -Z "Very Fast 1080p30

I’ve tried using double quotes around the file names but then I get errors when filenames contain special characters such as ‘$’.

References: https://github.com/HaveAGitGat/HBBatchBeast/issues/21 https://github.com/HaveAGitGat/HBBatchBeast/issues/32

Any solutions without having to rename the files?

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Created 4 years ago
Comments:8 (3 by maintainers)

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HaveAGitGatcommented, May 5, 2019

Thanks that actually works perfectly, much appreciated.

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nfischercommented, May 6, 2019

We’re looking to add a similar (and more secure) solution to ShellJS proper. That work is tracked in #495. For now, I believe shelljs-exec-proxy should handle most security/usability concerns.

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