child_process.spawn fails on Windows given a space in both the command and an argument · Issue #25895 · nodejs/node-v0.x-archive (original) (raw)

Repro: https://gist.github.com/smrq/f028b22bc748af9e68a7

The gist of this issue is that on Windows, child_process.spawn handles the command incorrectly when both it and one of its arguments contains a space. So, this works fine:

var spawn = require('child_process').spawn;

spawn('nospaces.cmd', ['arg with spaces']); spawn('command with spaces.cmd', ['nospaces']);

But this yields 'command' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.:

spawn('command with spaces.cmd', ['arg with spaces']);

Tested on Windows 7 with node 0.12.7.