Strip surrounding quotes from CLI paths for Windows CMD #91
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Windows CMD does not strip single quotes from arguments, so `--home 'C:\Users\foo'` passes the literal value `'C:\Users\foo'` (quotes included), producing broken paths like `'C:\...\'\config.toml`. Strip matching surrounding single or double quotes in expandPath(), which handles --home, --config, and MSGVAULT_HOME paths. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
On Unix, shells strip quotes before the process sees them, and literal quote characters in paths are valid (if unusual). Guard the stripping with runtime.GOOS == "windows" and mark the corresponding tests as windowsOnly. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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I tested this locally and confirmed it resolves the issue when a user uses single quotes to pass the |
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Summary
Fixes #86
--home 'C:\Users\foo'passes the literal value'C:\Users\foo'(quotes included), producing broken paths like'C:\Users\foo'\config.tomlexpandPath()now strips matching surrounding single or double quotes before processing, covering--home,--config, andMSGVAULT_HOMEpathsTest plan
TestExpandPath— new cases for single-quoted, double-quoted, mismatched, and single-char inputsmake lint— cleanmake test— all pass🤖 Generated with Claude Code