toCommandLine

Converts an array of command-line arguments into a single command-line string using the CommandLineToArgvW convention (the standard used by the Microsoft C runtime and most Windows programs).

Implements the ArgvQuote algorithm from Everyone quotes command line arguments the wrong way: backslashes before quotes and at the end of a quoted argument are doubled.

This produces a shell-agnostic command line. Callers that route through a specific shell (cmd.exe, PowerShell, sh) must apply shell-specific escaping on top — see cmdEscapeCommandLine.

Import:

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

Signature:

function toCommandLine(args: string[]): string

Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Description
args	string[]	The array of command-line arguments to convert.

Returns: string — A string representing the command-line invocation.

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