It also has a different idea of what’s actually double-quoted: it ignores backslashes completely. (Well, the Microsoft C runtime and SHELL32.DLL also have diffe

It also has a different idea of what’s actually double-quoted: it ignores backslashes completely. (Well, the Microsoft C runtime and SHELL32.DLL also have different ideas in that regard, as mentioned in the links in the post, but CMD.EXE’s different different idea is ... more different. I still don’t understand whetehr SHELL32.DLL and pre-2008 C runtime are the same or not. An MSDN blog post discussing this is—concisely if not in detail—here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/archive/blogs/twistylittlepassagesallalike/everyone-quotes-command-line-arguments-the-wrong-way https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/archive/blogs/twistylittlep...; I think I came upon it by following links from the head post but I can’t seem to recover the path.)