[PENDING] Passing arguments

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[PENDING] Passing arguments

sergeevabc opened this issue 6 years ago · comments

Dear Luis, I am confused as the following sequence does not work.

$ RunAsService install "WatchExec" "C:\Test\watchexec.exe --postpone -w C:\FolderToWatch C:\Test\FileToLaunchOnChange.bat"

You must specify the path to a console application executable. Nothing in the parameters you specified pointed to an executable.

Jacosci · Answer 1 · Wed Jan 23 2019 21:39:02 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Dear Luis, I am confused as the following sequence does not work.

$ RunAsService install "WatchExec" "C:\Test\watchexec.exe --postpone -w C:\FolderToWatch C:\Test\FileToLaunchOnChange.bat"

You must specify the path to a console application executable. Nothing in the parameters you specified pointed to an executable.

That's Windows' fault. Try to put an extra quotation marks around the path of your executable+arguments. I never had any problem passing arguments so far.

eagle275 · Answer 2 · Mon Oct 12 2020 16:07:36 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@Jacosci I have doubts your solution helps ... When I tried to cure my problem (issue 3) by adding another "level" of quotes around the executable path I get an error saying in principle "I cant find an exe file-name in the string you give me" - when I remove the extra quotes the path is accepted (though it doesnt work if the path contains space(s) )

Luis Perez · Answer 3 · Tue Oct 13 2020 06:12:13 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hmm, I believe there is an alternate path, a shorter version of the path used by dos. If so there might be a way to convert it. Another thing we can look at is how and where the other service information is stored. Then we can see how they handle paths with spaces.

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