The harsh answer:
1 using spaces in unix :-)
2 using 1.0.x, while 1.9.x is so much better.

The explanation:

Seriously, it was a bug, it is fixed. To avoid similar problems, 1.9.2 and later have a function sysutils.executeprocess that avoids it all together by avoiding the parsing stage and passing arguments separately from the executable name.

sysutils.executeproces('/path to/the file/ with a space',['arg1 arg2','arg2 arg3']);

The exec[v|e|p] functions are renamed to fpexec() and also have this.

Hello,

I am using fpc 1.0.10 in both Unix and W32. Need to process an external file with external binary program:

    exec(myprog, myfile);

I cannot process this way any file that name contains whitespaces. Replacing 'my file' with '"my file"', 'my\ file', '"my\ file"' has no effect; apart from that exec(myprog, '"myfile"') does not work even if filename has no spaces.
The problem seems to depend on the way of passing arguments to the program, not on the program itself: many programs like /bin/cat, /bin/gzip, and others behave similarily.

Using

    execv(myprog + ' '+myfile);
    exec(myprog+ ' '+myfile, '');

result the same.
The problem is only in Unix. What am I doing wrong?

Sincerely

Jan Jelowicki

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Marco van de Voort wrote

The harsh answer: 1 using spaces in unix :-)

this is users' decision, not the programmer's.
Besides, it is legal ;)

2 using 1.0.x, while 1.9.x is so much better.

yes, 1.0.4 was much too buggy for me.
1.0.10 occured quite stable and was enough up to now.

Seriously, it was a bug, it is fixed. To avoid similar problems, 1.9.2 and later have a function sysutils.executeprocess that avoids it all together by avoiding the parsing stage and passing arguments separately from the executable name.

Thanks. This should make me to migrate soon.

Regards,

Jan Jelowicki

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