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| author | Maël Nison <mael@fb.com> | 2018-11-03 10:52:44 -0700 |
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| committer | Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net> | 2019-04-17 19:46:00 +0200 |
| commit | 3ef1512f9e416cc7656b9cd16934dffdee1b11d3 (patch) | |
| tree | 440c5d413cf9e628c1556a89d2b798acd445403f /doc | |
| parent | ba74e42000418bf9e8263123fc7291c19e1d5425 (diff) | |
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src: allows escaping NODE_OPTIONS with backslashes
The characters specified within NODE_OPTIONS can now be escaped, which
is handy especially in conjunction with `--require` (where the file path
might happen to contain spaces that shouldn't cause the option to be
split into two).
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/12971
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/24065
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/api/cli.md | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/api/cli.md b/doc/api/cli.md index 79f2dcd2ba..a2c92b1334 100644 --- a/doc/api/cli.md +++ b/doc/api/cli.md @@ -774,6 +774,13 @@ if they had been specified on the command line before the actual command line (so they can be overridden). Node.js will exit with an error if an option that is not allowed in the environment is used, such as `-p` or a script file. +In case an option value happens to contain a space (for example a path listed in +`--require`), it must be escaped using double quotes. For example: + +```bash +--require "./my path/file.js" +``` + Node.js options that are allowed are: - `--diagnostic-report-directory` - `--diagnostic-report-filename` |