[jira] [Resolved] (GROOVY-7545) Incorrect handling of quotes in executed strings

["Keegan Witt (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-7545?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Keegan Witt resolved GROOVY-7545.
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    Resolution: Won't Fix

This isn't a Groovy bug.  Compile & run this and you'll observe the same behavior

{code:java}
public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            ProcessBuilder processBuilder = new ProcessBuilder("sh -c 'echo test'");
            processBuilder.redirectOutput(ProcessBuilder.Redirect.INHERIT);
            processBuilder.redirectError(ProcessBuilder.Redirect.INHERIT);
            Process process = processBuilder.start();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
    }
}
{code}

There's several [discussions|https://www.google.com/search?q="Runtime.getRuntime().exec"+quote] about this.  [This one|http://stackoverflow.com/questions/161859/using-quotes-within-getruntime-exec] goes into some detail.

The only thing Groovy could try to do is tokenize out your string parts for you.  But I don't see how you could intelligently make that determination programmatically.

> Incorrect handling of quotes in executed strings
> ------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: GROOVY-7545
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-7545
>             Project: Groovy
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 2.4.0
>            Reporter: Pavel
>
> {code}
> cat execute.bug.groovy
> #!/bin/env groovy
> String cmd = "sh -c 'echo test' "
> println "cmd: $cmd"
> def proc = cmd.execute()
> proc.waitForProcessOutput(System.out, System.err)
> {code}
> {code}
> $ LANG=en_US.utf8 ./execute.bug.groovy
> cmd: sh -c 'echo test' 
> test': -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
> test': -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
> {code}



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