I am running into a peculiar behavior of the eclipse run configuration, and it appears to be a Windows-only problem. Suppose I have a Java app that prints out the command line arguments, like the following:
public class WildCard {
public static void main(String[] args) {
for (String arg: args) {
System.out.println(arg);
}
}
}
If I provide argument with a wild card that can be expanded by the shell, the shell will expand it and give it to the Java program. That's no surprise. So, if I do on the command prompt
java WildCard test/*
the program will print
test/foo.txt
test/bar.txt
where foo.txt and bar.txt are files in the directory "test".
Shell expansions can be prevented if I surround the wildcard argument in quotes; single quotes on *nix, and double quotes on Windows. So for Windows, if I do the following on the command prompt:
java WildCard "test/*"
the program will now print
test/*
(no expansion).
However, what I find is that the quoting in the eclipse run launcher seems to have no effect, and the argument is still expanded. If I put
"test/*"
in the program argument section in the eclipse run launcher, and run the above class, I still get
test/foo.txt
test/bar.txt
In other words, the double quotes seem to be lost when the program actually runs. This seems to happen only with Windows.
Is there a way to prevent the shell expansion with the eclipse run launcher on Windows? Thanks!