Env. variables with parentheses don't work in $exec

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vurtikas
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Env. variables with parentheses don't work in $exec

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I'm using $exec("%Commander_Path%\TOTALCMD.exe" /t /o "%1")

%Commander_Path% expands to "C:\Program Files (x86)\TotalCmd"

Everything 1.3.1.636 fails with: "ShellExecuteExW(): GetLastError(): 2: failed to execute C:\Program Files (x86"
void
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Re: Env. variables with parentheses don't work in $exec

Post by void »

Thanks for reporting this issue.

This is a bug, I will have it fixed for the next release of Everything.

For now you will need to specify the full path to totalcmd.exe with-out
using the environment string and use $( and $) to escape ( and ).

For example:

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$exec("C:\Program Files $(x86$)\TotalCmd\TOTALCMD.exe" /t /o "%1")
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