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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 04:35:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in versions 25.0.50, 24.3

Done: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 18745 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18745: 
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 00:24:29 +0100

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On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 8:14 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> Do you see the same result if you invoke 'echo' from the cmd prompt?
> IOW, does this mean Windows 10 changed the behavior of the built-in
> 'echo', and it now removes trailing whitespace from its argument?

IIUC your question, no

C:\Users\Juanma>echo A>A.txt

C:\Users\Juanma>echo B    >B.txt

C:\Users\Juanma>dir *.txt

28/10/2015  00:23                 3 A.txt
28/10/2015  00:23                 7 B.txt
               2 archivos             10 bytes

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