Dear Randy,

thanks for your observation. This issue is related to some other issues reported in one of our GitHub issues..

https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/issues/154

..and I have just added your remark. Just another motivation to fix this pretty soon (there are lots of similar issues around the current command lnie parsing).

We'll keep you updated, Christian

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On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Randy reed randywreed@gmail.com wrote:

This is probably an elementary question but I am using basex on windows and trying to invoke the program with -o option, but it keeps choking on the space in the file name. I've tried escaping the name with \ but to no avail. Heres the line:

C:>java -cp "C:\Program Files\Basex\basex.jar" org.basex.BaseX -o"C:\Documents and Settings\reedrw\My Documents\audit.xml" "C:/Documents and Settings/reedrw/My Documents/My Dropbox/student_ind_detail_byname_no_ext_var.xq"

The error is: Error: File or directory "and Settings\reedrw\My Documents\audit.xml C:/Document s and Settings/reedrw/My Documents/My Dropbox/student_ind_detail_byname_no_ext_var.xq" not found.

So it looks to me that the -o has stopped at the space and then it hast taken the rest as the full path of the actual query. Just to be clear I have tried it java -cp "C:\Program Files\Basex\basex.jar" org.basex.BaseX -o"C:/Documents and Settings/reedrw/My Documents/audit.xml" "C:/Documents and Settings/reedrw/My Documents/My Dropbox/student_ind_detail_byname_no_ext_var.xq"

as well and that generates the same error

thanks in advance

-- Dr. Randall Reed Assistant Professor, Dept. of Philosophy and Religion Appalachian State University

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