Fix NetBeans launch failure on unix shell for arguments with quotes et al #7908
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**Issue**
When NetBeans is launched on *nix shell with arguments that contain
special characters like quotes, spaces, $ and backticks, then it may
fail or not receive the arguments correctly.
The launcher scripts are:
- java/java.lsp.server/script/bin/nbcode
- platform/o.n.bootstrap/launcher/unix/nbexec
The cause is due to incomplete escaping of the special characters before
quoting the argument.
**Fix**
1. Ensure that all arguments are quoted before passing forward to the
executable launch.
- This is implemented similar to other open-source build tools.
- Example: [ant](https://github.com/apache/ant/blob/master/src/script/ant#L63)
2. Ensure that the special characters ' " $ ` in the argument are
escaped according to the quoting being performed.
3. Consistently use `eval` with arguments single-quoted and parameter
substitution within it being double-quoted.
- This makes `nbexec` similar to the `nbcode` script
4. Updated the unit test for `nbexec`
Signed-off-by: Siddharth Srinivasan <[email protected]>
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Issue
When NetBeans is launched on *nix shell with arguments that contain special characters like quotes, spaces, $ and backticks, then it may fail or not receive the arguments correctly.
The launcher scripts are:
The cause is due to incomplete escaping of the special characters before quoting the argument.
Examples:
--jdkhome "$HOME/openjdk's jdkhome"--jdkhome '/home/user/tools/jdk "23"'--jdkhome /c/Program\ Files/Java/jdk--userdir "/mnt/user's macbook pro/Users/user/Library/Application Support/NetBeans"-Dnetbeans.extra.dirs="nb-dev\$old/extras/plugin1:nb-dev\$old/extras/plugin2:ext/My Plugins/quo\"'d"Further, a discrepancy is created between the argument strings passed on a Windows host (using the launcher exe/dll) and *nix hosts.
Fix
evalwith arguments single-quoted and parameter substitution within it being double-quoted.nbexecsimilar to thenbcodescriptnbexec.