Starting from powershell and escaping spaces

[rogalmic]

To reproduce, run this in powershell 5.1.17134.228 (1.0 folder):

PS C:\Users\billc> bash -c 'echo "test    spaces"'

result (should be test spaces):

test

Same thing works fine in cmd:

C:\Users\billc>bash -c 'echo "test    spaces"'
test    spaces

[therealkenc]

bash.exe is depreciated in the Win 10 build you are running, but setting that aside, powershell.exe and cmd.exe have different string quoting semantics. Newspeak is:

PS C:\Users\ken> wsl.exe bash -c "echo 'test      spaces'"
test      spaces

Or, in PS only (but not CMD which will eat the whitspace):

PS C:\Users\ken> wsl bash -c 'echo ''test     spaces'''
test      spaces

You'll get better service on this one in PS/CMD forums, but I'll let it percolate here for a short bit.

[rogalmic]

OK, thank you for this answer! Please close this issue when needed.