Scripts fail to launch in debugger (or open in ISE) if working directory path contains spaces

[durmiun]

Example: D:\powershell code\Get-Something.ps1 will fail to launch with the following error:

d:\powershell : The term 'd:\powershell' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable
program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1

• d:\powershell code\Get-OutlookPublicFolders.ps1

• - CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (d:\powershell:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
  - FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
  
  

launch.json contains the default settings (as of 0.4.0 release of Powershell extension):

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "PowerShell",
            "type": "PowerShell",
            "request": "launch",
            "program": "${file}",
            "args": [],
            "cwd": "${file}"
        }
    ]
}

I have also tried placing the full path name in the cwd parameter, using escaped double quotes, single quotes, etc.

[daviwil]

Perfect, thanks for filing this! Should be an easy fix.

[rkeithhill]

We should switch to using PathIntrinsics to set the working dir and when we escape the script path, we also need to escape spaces (not just [ and ]). For now you should be able to work around this by specifying the full path with spaces escaped e.g.:

"program": "d:\\powershell` code\\Get-OutlookPublicFolders.ps1"

[daviwil]

Ah yes! The back tick is the trick.

[rkeithhill]

BTW this issue also impacts the "Open file in ISE" command. :-(

[daviwil]

Ouch! That's OK, should be relatively easy to make a backtick escaper in JavaScript.

[rkeithhill]

Hmm, I was planning on fixing it in PSES. Do you think it would be better to do in the extension JavaScript?

[daviwil]

The debug program path issue will need to be fixed in PSES but the 'Open in ISE' command is done purely in TypeScript (for now)

[durmiun]

Awesome, thank you for the quick turn around on this!