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bad double quote parsing (appears to be all commands) #144
Description
Behold:
D:\>"c:\Program Files\coreutils\bin\printf.exe" %s-%s-%s "a""a" "a""a" "a""a"
a"a aa aa--
If I run this through cygwin the expected output appears:
D:\>"c:\cygwin64\bin\printf.exe" %s-%s-%s "a""a" "a""a" "a""a"
a"a-a"a-a"a
So far I've tried this with printf, echo, and xargs but I think all commands are affected.
What I'm trying to do: find | xargs sed -i where the replacement string contains double quote characters.
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lhecker commentedon Jul 21, 2026
Oh, you already deduced that this is a bug in wild. Well done! For the curious: https://gitlab.com/kornelski/wild/-/work_items/9
jhudsoncedaron commentedon Jul 21, 2026
There's not much I can do here unless sed is brought into the fold (fixing this nonsense requires a coordinated change and right now sed is a different project altogether) -- which may or may not happen.
I would not have otherwise considered adding sed; but ultimately sed is the driver here, the real use case for non-filename crazy strings.