Custom command line switches can't contain spaces in value

[Sam13]

Is it intended that custom command line switches which values contain spaces need to be escaped like that?

Cake.exe build.cake "-target=Te st"

If I specify like the following, Cake reports that more than one build script is specified:

Cake.exe build.cake -target="Te st"

Output:

More than one build script specified.

Could not find a build script to execute.
Either the first argument must the build script's path,
or build script should follow default script name conventions.

Usage: Cake.exe [build-script] [-verbosity=value]
                [-showdescription] [-dryrun] [..]

I use Cake 0.8.0

[patriksvensson]

@Sam13 No, your assumptions are correct. -target="te st" should be valid. I suspect that there's a bug in the argument tokenizer.

[FoCoPeazy]

@patriksvensson Any word on this? As of v0.11 I'm still experiencing this bug. I'm trying to pass the path of a file, and this path contains spaces. When the path contains spaces, I receive the error "More than one build script specified." If I modify the file path to not contain spaces, then everything works as expected. This is a rather annoying bug to work around in terms of our build server.

[patriksvensson]

@FoCoPeazy Unless someone step up and does this before us, we're planning on fixing this in the 0.13.0 release.

[FoCoPeazy]

@patriksvensson Thanks for the update! I may take a look into it, although I'm not at all familiar with the Cake codebase...

Also, just want to say that Cake is fantastic overall, keep up the great work :)

[patriksvensson]

@Sam13 @FoCoPeazy A fix for this has been implemented in #955. Should appear in version 0.13.0 of Cake.

[Sam13]

Thanks 👍