quotes not properly handled

[gnychis]

I am having the issue where quotes are not handled very traditionally.

For example, in a traditional console:

$ echo "packages"
packages

In Cmder:

λ echo 'packages'
'packages'
λ echo "packages"
"packages"

This breaks more complex grammar, working in a traditional bash shell:

$ git filter-branch -f --index-filter 'git rm -r --cached --ignore-unmatch bin' --prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat -- --all
Rewrite 4b2293f4807bb3008d983d627423fe2b20cfd723 (2/2)
WARNING: Ref 'refs/heads/master' is unchanged
WARNING: Ref 'refs/remotes/origin/master' is unchanged
WARNING: Ref 'refs/remotes/origin/master' is unchanged

Failing due to the quotes in Cmder:

λ git filter-branch -f --index-filter 'git rm -r --cached --ignore-unmatch bin' --prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat -- --all
fatal: bad revision 'rm'

[MartiUK]

This is a problem with msysgit's echo... I don't know why it doesn't handle quotes correctly.

[JokerQyou]

There's another problem with msysgit which could be connected with this.
git commit -m 'msg' will not work, and git commit -m "msg" will work. This makes sense, but git commit -m "msg also works, which is very confusing for me.
Also I tried to run a batch script which worked fine with cmd, in this script there's code as following:

SET PYINSTALLERPATH="C:\Python27\Scripts"
%PYINSTALLERPATH%\pyinstaller --clean --noconfirm myapp.spec

And this does not work in Cmder. I took a while to figure it out, changing the above codes to this:

SET PYINSTALLERPATH="C:/Python27/Scripts"
%PYINSTALLERPATH%"/pyinstaller" --clean --noconfirm myapp.spec

and it works. But I don't know why.

[NekR]

There's another problem with msysgit which could be connected with this.
git commit -m 'msg' will not work, and git commit -m "msg" will work. This make sense, but git commit -m "msg also works, which is very confusing for me.

Same for me, very annoying.

[marcoflorian]

echo "Something" >> file.txt

Prints at the end of the file:

"Something"

Any updates on this?

Is it safe to do it without quotes?

echo Something >> file.txt

Seems to work fine:

Something

[jankatins]

I just tried this with #865 and this is the result:

C:\Users\jschulz
λ which bash
C:\Program Files\Git\bin\bash.exe
C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\bash.exe

C:\Users\jschulz
λ bash

jschulz@littlebottom MINGW64 ~
$ echo "hallo"
hallo

[mariotacke]

Just ran into the same issue. I started bash first, then ran the command in the shell and it worked.