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23/12/2010

Lua os.execute on Windows

When you are using environment variables that contain paths with spaces, you have to use quotes. But when os.execute runs a command that starts with a quote it somehow removes it… but apparently adding another pair of quotes around the whole thing helps.

os.execute( '""%ProgramFiles%"\\Notepad++\\notepad++"' )
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