10-04-2012
Windows CMD does not parse shell syntax, it passes the commandline onto the program raw, quotes and all, for it to process as it sees fit. As such, programs can process quotes on the commandline in quite different ways from each other. It can be hard to guess how many backslashes you need, or whether backslashes even matter, and sometimes impossible to prevent strings from splitting when they shouldn't.
I'd reccomend
busybox for windows if you want to casually write small UNIX scripts in windows. It amounts to a standalone Bourne shell with built-in awk, sed, cp, mv, and all sorts of other commands.
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escapeshellarg
ESCAPESHELLARG(3) 1 ESCAPESHELLARG(3)
escapeshellarg - Escape a string to be used as a shell argument
SYNOPSIS
string escapeshellarg (string $arg)
DESCRIPTION
escapeshellarg(3) adds single quotes around a string and quotes/escapes any existing single quotes allowing you to pass a string directly
to a shell function and having it be treated as a single safe argument. This function should be used to escape individual arguments to
shell functions coming from user input. The shell functions include exec(3), system(3) and the backtick operator.
On Windows, escapeshellarg(3) instead removes percent signs, replaces double quotes with spaces and adds double quotes around the string.
PARAMETERS
o $arg
- The argument that will be escaped.
RETURN VALUES
The escaped string.
EXAMPLES
Example #1
escapeshellarg(3) example
<?php
system('ls '.escapeshellarg($dir));
?>
SEE ALSO
escapeshellcmd(3), exec(3), popen(3), system(3), backtick operator.
PHP Documentation Group ESCAPESHELLARG(3)