Recursive call fails on Windows

[andraaspar]

The command:

parallelshell "echo foo" "parallelshell ""echo bar"" ""echo baz"" "

Results in:

foo
'\"echo' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
'bar\"' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
`"echo` failed with exit code 1
`parallelshell "echo bar" "echo baz" ` failed with exit code 1

[keithamus]

Hey @andraaspar thanks for the issue.

It looks as though you might need to escape some of those quotes - as I'm not sure Windows would be able to recognise them like that, although I can't be sure.

Try this:

parallelshell "echo foo" "parallelshell \"echo bar\" \"echo baz\""

[andraaspar]

Done, here's the output:

parallelshell "echo foo" "parallelshell \"echo bar\" \"echo baz\""
foo
'\"echo' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
'bar\"' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
`"echo` failed with exit code 1
'\"echo' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
`parallelshell "echo bar" "echo baz"` failed with exit code 1

[andraaspar]

FYI, I have also tried:

parallelshell "echo foo" "parallelshell ^"echo bar^" ^"echo baz^""

Which gives:

foo
'bar' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
'baz' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
`bar echo` failed with exit code 1

[andraaspar]

But "" as an escape sequence seems to work with child_process.exec in addenv-cli. Of course, migrating to child_process.exec may not be trivial.

[andraaspar]

FYI, I have reported this as a Node.js bug.

[paulpflug]

should work with #30

[andraaspar]

It does indeed.