cmdEscapeCommandLine

Escapes cmd.exe metacharacters with ^ so that cmd.exe passes them through literally. This is necessary because cmd.exe’s " handling differs from CommandLineToArgvW and cannot be relied upon.

Apply this to a command line string that will be executed via cmd.exe (e.g., spawn(cmd, [], { shell: true }) on Windows).

Import:

import { cmdEscapeCommandLine } from 'obsidian-dev-utils/script-utils/cli-utils';

Signature:

function cmdEscapeCommandLine(commandLine: string): string

Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Description
commandLine	string	The already-quoted command line string.

Returns: string — The string with all cmd metacharacters ^-escaped.

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Links to this page:

• toCommandLine
• toPosixCommandLine