on Windows, empty command-line arguments require quotes #5269
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Unix-like OSs pass an array of strings to processes as the command line
arguments. Empty arguments do not require special treatment.
By contrast, Windows uses a single string to pass all arguments to the
process. The process parses the string to construct
argv[]
. To pass anempty argument, quotes are required.
Note that this is unrelated to any additional parsing a shell might perform.