Re: open and backslashes...

From: Gerald W. Lester (Gerald.Lester_at_cox.net)
Date: 03/25/05 

Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:46:37 -0600

Jeff Godfrey wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Under WinXP, given a user supplied program command line, such as:
>
> set cmd {c:\path\to\myprog.exe -F 1 -G 2:2 -Q "a text parm"}
>
> What is the best/safest way to make the above "acceptable" to the open
> command, as in:
>
> open "|$cmd"
>
> It seems that I need to convert the (possible) backslashes in the exe path
> to forward slashes for open, but I don't want to break anything else in the
> supplied command line. Also, I suppose the exe path could contain spaces...
>...

set cmdList [split $cmd]
lset cmdList 0 [file normalize [lindex $cmdList 0]]
set cmd [join $cmdList] 

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