Subject: Re: bug#18745: 24.3; MS Windows, `call-process-shell-command' fails on `shell-quote-argument'ed bat file with quoted args

From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 12:28:58 -0400

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 2:50 AM, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> wrote:
> This is a Windows misfeature, not an Emacs bug: the CreateProcess
> primitive fails like that when passed a command that is a batch file.

So there is no way for Emacs to paper over the Windows ugliness?

> To work around, try using cmd.exe as the command, and the batch file
> with arguments as its arguments, with "/c" prepended.

Doesn't work :(  I tried

  (call-process-shell-command
   "cmd.exe" nil t t
   "/c" "\"c:/path with space/foo-bar.bat\"" "\"x y\"")

  (call-process-shell-command
   "cmd.exe" nil t t
   "/c \"c:/path with space/foo-bar.bat\" \"x y\"")

  (call-process-shell-command
   "cmd.exe" nil t t
   "/c" "c:/path with space/foo-bar.bat" "x y")

All of them give

  'c:/path' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
  operable program or batch file.