[Scons-users] escaping brackets () in file path

[Plunket, Tom]

It's not a direct answer to your query, but can you just quote your file arguments? I have to do that anyway because my users love to put spaces in their filenames but it also covers other shell characters pretty well. The only character I need to handle manually (presumably because I can't figure out how to get env.Literal to work) is the dollar symbol $ but that's because SCons tries to process it before it gets to the shell.

-----Original Message-----
From: Scons-users [mailto:scons-users-bounces at scons.org] On Behalf Of Carnë Draug
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 4:56 PM
To: SCons users mailing list <scons-users at scons.org>
Subject: [Scons-users] escaping brackets () in file path

On my project I have paths with brackets.  It seems to me that SCons tries to escape them incorrectly.  In addition, the command that is displayed is different from what's actually executed.

Please consider:

    $ cat SConstruct
    #!/usr/bin/env python
    # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
    Command(target='foo (bar) qux', source=None, action='touch $TARGET')

    $ scons
    scons: Reading SConscript files ...
    scons: done reading SConscript files.
    scons: Building targets ...
    touch "foo (bar) qux"
    scons: done building targets.

    $ ls
    foo \(bar\) qux  SConstruct

Note how the generated file has backslashes on the name.  Doesn't look like it's bash playing up.  I have checked the actual argv passed to programs:

    $ cat SConstruct
    #!/usr/bin/env python
    # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

    Command(target='foo (bar) qux', source=None, action='python -c "import sys; print sys.argv" $TARGET')

    $ scons
    scons: Reading SConscript files ...
    scons: done reading SConscript files.
    scons: Building targets ...
    python -c "import sys; print sys.argv" "foo (bar) qux"
    ['-c', 'foo \\(bar\\) qux']
    scons: done building targets.

So is this a bug in SCons or am I missing a detail about how to curate my own paths?  Should I be handling these paths in some different way?

Thank you,
Carnë
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