child_process.spawn fails on Windows given a space in both the command and an argument · Issue #7367 · nodejs/node (original) (raw)

• Version: 4.4.4, 4.4.7, 5.10.1, 6.2.2
• Platform: Windows 7, 64-bit
• Subsystem: child_process

Reproduction of the error: https://gist.github.com/smrq/f028b22bc748af9e68a7

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']);

(This is node-v0.x-archive #25895, still extant in higher Node.js versions.)