Re: [Condor-users] weird behavior -- commas and quotes in condor_submit arguments

[Dan Bradley <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Under Unix, I observe no trouble passing these arguments through.  
Therefore, it appears that the problem is Windows-specific.

In Windows, Condor tries to produce command line arguments that will be 
correctly interpreted by the Windows function CommandLineToArgv().  Not 
all Windows programs use CommandLineToArgv() to parse their arguments.  
I am not personally knowledgeable about whether batch scripts use this 
function.  I'll discuss with the Windows experts here.

The old-style arguments syntax in Condor is platform-specific.  Under 
Windows, it directly appends to the final command line whatever you 
enter in the submit file (with the exception of backslashes in front of 
double-quotes, which Condor strips off).  Therefore, you could try 
starting with the following old-style syntax and then adding escapes or 
whatever you need to do in order to get the right effect:

arguments = \"myfunction('arg1','arg2')\"

--Dan

Matthijs van der Meer wrote:

> Help! I'd like to run a condor job with arguments that contain double 
> quotes, single quotes, and commas, but condor_submit is always able to 
> mangle my input beyond recognition. As a testbed, I run a batch file 
> that just echo's its input arguments, like so:
>
> echo %1 %2 %3 ...
>
> When I then submit the following:
>
> executable = echo_inputs.bat
> universe = vanilla
> arguments = """myfunction('''arg1''','''arg2''')"""
>
> I'm using the new style arguments formatting: the intention is to end up 
> with
>
> "myfunction('arg1','arg2')"
>
> HOWEVER, what actually gets run (the output of the echo batch file) is
>
> "\"myfunction('arg1' 'arg2')\""
>
> (Note disappearance of comma, backslash insertion, and lack of double 
> double quote deletion.) As I understand it, this is not at all in 
> agreement with the condor_submit documentation at 
> http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/v6.8/condor_submit.html.
>
> Can someone shed light on this? I'm using 6.8.5 with all Windows machines.
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Matthijs
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