[Bug 49457] New: Simple command in powershell 6 (pwsh) containing "$" only works for me if the dollar sign is escaped

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49457

Bug ID: 49457
           Summary: Simple command in powershell 6 (pwsh) containing "$"
                    only works for me if the dollar sign is escaped
           Product: Wine
           Version: 5.11
          Hardware: x86
               URL: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/down
                    load/v6.1.6/PowerShell-6.1.6-win-x64.msi
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: download
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

I tried simple command like

wine pwsh.exe /c $env:username

and it gives  ":username"

If one escapes the dollarsign it works correctly:

wine pwsh.exe /c $env:username

gives "louis"

When you first start powershell console like "wine start pwsh", and type in the
console it works correctly (without the escape character)

I tried 1st command in Windows 7 cmd, and it works correctly (so without having
to add the escape character)

(The same story above holds for powershell 2.0 in wine too, but that is more
troublesome to get installed due to few bugs in bugilla, so i files it here for
pwsh.exe)

[Bug 49457] Simple command in powershell 6 (pwsh) containing "$" only works for me if the dollar sign is escaped

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49457

Alexandre Julliard  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |INVALID

--- Comment #1 from Alexandre Julliard  ---
If you call it directly from the Unix shell, you need to escape shell
metacharacters. There's nothing Wine can do about this.

[Bug 49457] Simple command in powershell 6 (pwsh) containing "$" only works for me if the dollar sign is escaped

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49457

--- Comment #2 from Louis Lenders  ---
Created attachment 67558
  --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=67558
test executable, should output major and minor version of powershell (e.g. 2 0
)

(In reply to Alexandre Julliard from comment #1)
> If you call it directly from the Unix shell, you need to escape shell
> metacharacters. There's nothing Wine can do about this.

Ah I see, thanks for info. 
I was trying to find out why Waves Central installer was failing and thought
this might be possible reason, but indeed this is not the cause for failing
installer.

For info , mainly for myself ;)  I attach simple test program that does what
Waves Central does, this executable does

CreateProcessW(NULL, L"cmd.exe /d /s /c powershell.exe Write-Host
$PSVersionTable.PSVersion.Major $PSVersionTable.PSVersion.Minor";, NULL, NULL,
FALSE, 0, NULL, NULL, &stinf, &info))

and it works fine once I install powershell

I think installer fails for other reason, I`ll just open new bugreport for that

Sorry for the noise

Regards

[Bug 49457] Simple command in powershell 6 (pwsh) containing "$" only works for me if the dollar sign is escaped

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49457

--- Comment #3 from Austin English  ---
Closing.

[Bug 49457] Simple command in powershell 6 (pwsh) containing "$" only works for me if the dollar sign is escaped

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49457

Austin English  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

--- Comment #4 from Austin English  ---
Closing.

[Bug 49457] Simple command in powershell 6 (pwsh) containing "$" only works for me if the dollar sign is escaped

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49457

Anastasius Focht  changed:

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                URL|https://github.com/PowerShe |https://web.archive.org/web
                   |ll/PowerShell/releases/down |/20210702121923/https://git
                   |load/v6.1.6/PowerShell-6.1. |hub.com/PowerShell/PowerShe
                   |6-win-x64.msi               |ll/releases/download/v6.1.6
                   |                            |/PowerShell-6.1.6-win-x64.m
                   |                            |si
                 CC|                            |[e-mail]