\ must be enclosed in quotes

[pLu]

Example:

component chown "My Component" DOMAIN\login

Results in:

Name                  Owner
-------------------------------
My Component          DOMAINlogin

I'm using Python 2.3.4 on Windows.

[anonymous]

It's not a bug, and it isn't windows-only, it's the way interactive trac-admin handles escapes. Easier than wrapping everything in quotes is to use double \'s:

component chown "My Component" DOMAIN\\login

If used as a command-line argument I don't think it needs to be escaped, but I only have a bash shell to test on and that has its own escaping. I think DOMAIN\\login on the command line should have its escapes handled by the shell and passed on to trac-admin as just DOMAIN\login, which works (that is, typing DOMAIN\\\\login is not necessary). My understanding of how the shell handles escapes is quite likely wrong, but echo -E DOMAIN\\login does output DOMAIN\login.

Whether this functionality is desirable is debatable. It's minor, but IMHO it's more bug than feature because I can't think of a single valid use of an escape in trac-admin; the only escapable character I can think of that won't be thrown out is a quotation mark which is useless and less likely to occur than the escape character itself (especially with NTLM authentication being used). Plus, if escapes are removed, quotes will still be inputable if wrapped in a differing quote type. This already works:

component chown 'A "weird" name' DOMAIN\\login

Oh, and I guess somebody in the world might have used it once to escape a space instead of wrapping the words in quotes.

[Matthew Good]

This is the standard behavior of the Python cmd module that trac-admin uses, but I agree that it doesn't seem necessary for this use.

[Matthew Good]

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