Shell commands don't work on Windows about panda HOT 6 CLOSED

Christophe, thanks for getting back to me so quickly. ☺ No error message. It just hangs. If I try cmd=”sh” I get a panda lua system call error because there is no “sh” command on Windows (unless I install Cygwin ;-). From: CDSoft ***@***.***> Sent: Thursday, November 4, 2021 3:34 AM To: CDSoft/panda ***@***.***> Cc: Bill Andel ***@***.***>; Author ***@***.***> Subject: [External] Re: [CDSoft/panda] Shell commands don't work on Windows (Issue #5) Do you have any error message? This works on Linux: `echo Hello World`{cmd=sh} If cmd needs more arguments, the whole command should be a quoted string otherwise Pandoc split words and the arguments won't be included in cmd: `echo Hello World`{cmd="cmd /c"} — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#5 (comment)>, or unsubscribe<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AWKXBGMJWHHQX7XZKXOONRLUKJOQPANCNFSM5HKAAAFA>. Triage notifications on the go with GitHub Mobile for iOS<https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1477376905?ct=notification-email&mt=8&pt=524675> or Android<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.github.android&referrer=utm_campaign%3Dnotification-email%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_source%3Dgithub>.

Had it in quotes, but hadn’t tried other options. I’ll look into that. Thanks. From: CDSoft ***@***.***> Sent: Thursday, November 4, 2021 8:43 AM To: CDSoft/panda ***@***.***> Cc: Bill Andel ***@***.***>; Author ***@***.***> Subject: [External] Re: [CDSoft/panda] Shell commands don't work on Windows (Issue #5) Did you try cmd="cmd /c" (with quotes around cmd /c)? There may be another problem. cmd may expect specific file names (e.g. with the .bat extension). On Linux the filename does not matter. The script is saved to a temporary file which name may not be supported by cmd. The doc says /e disables the extensions. And also /q to avoid unexpected outputs from cmd. Maybe: `echo Hello World`{cmd="cmd /e /q /c"} or `echo Hello World`{cmd="cmd /e:off /q /c"} — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#5 (comment)>, or unsubscribe<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AWKXBGPPIPHP6EOXJMT63KLUKKSZ5ANCNFSM5HKAAAFA>. Triage notifications on the go with GitHub Mobile for iOS<https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1477376905?ct=notification-email&mt=8&pt=524675> or Android<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.github.android&referrer=utm_campaign%3Dnotification-email%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_source%3Dgithub>.

None of that worked. Idiomatically, I don’t think Windows cmd.exe is capable of being invoked in this way, but I’m not certain. From: CDSoft ***@***.***> Sent: Thursday, November 4, 2021 8:43 AM To: CDSoft/panda ***@***.***> Cc: Bill Andel ***@***.***>; Author ***@***.***> Subject: [External] Re: [CDSoft/panda] Shell commands don't work on Windows (Issue #5) Did you try cmd="cmd /c" (with quotes around cmd /c)? There may be another problem. cmd may expect specific file names (e.g. with the .bat extension). On Linux the filename does not matter. The script is saved to a temporary file which name may not be supported by cmd. The doc says /e disables the extensions. And also /q to avoid unexpected outputs from cmd. Maybe: `echo Hello World`{cmd="cmd /e /q /c"} or `echo Hello World`{cmd="cmd /e:off /q /c"} — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#5 (comment)>, or unsubscribe<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AWKXBGPPIPHP6EOXJMT63KLUKKSZ5ANCNFSM5HKAAAFA>. Triage notifications on the go with GitHub Mobile for iOS<https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1477376905?ct=notification-email&mt=8&pt=524675> or Android<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.github.android&referrer=utm_campaign%3Dnotification-email%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_source%3Dgithub>.