[Bug]: The calculated values in windows and linux environments are inconsistent

[Varorbc]

[Bug]: The calculated values in windows and linux environments are inconsistent

[KalleOlaviNiemitalo]

This seems caused by the operating-system-dependent behaviour of CmdLine@2 referenced in azure-pipelines.yml. On Windows, it uses CMD, which does not remove quotation marks from the echo command. On Linux, it uses bash, which removes them.

[Varorbc]

@KalleOlaviNiemitalo What should I do? Can you give me some advice? Thanks.

[KalleOlaviNiemitalo]

I can think of ways to fix it, but haven't tried these:

• remove the quotation marks from https://github.com/Varorbc/Test/blob/ce49de9996babe7ff0cdc883c5d593fd712f6585/azure-pipelines.yml#L17 but then it'd not work on Linux
• replace CmdLine@2 with Bash@3 or PowerShell@2 if the docker images have these installed
• add a condition to run CmdLine@2 with different parameters depending on the operating system

[Varorbc]

This seems caused by the operating-system-dependent behaviour of CmdLine@2 referenced in azure-pipelines.yml. On Windows, it uses CMD, which does not remove quotation marks from the echo command. On Linux, it uses bash, which removes them.

It occurred to me that this was not the case, and if so, the value of Test1 should be empty in windows. Now it is true in both windows and linux environments, and as expected, there is no problem.

[KalleOlaviNiemitalo]

It occurred to me that this was not the case, and if so, the value of Test1 should be empty in windows.

What? Your Windows build log shows

  Restored D:\a\1\s\ClassLibrary1\ClassLibrary1\ClassLibrary1.csproj (in 170 ms).
  Test1= true" Test2=true
  ClassLibrary1 -> D:\a\1\s\ClassLibrary1\ClassLibrary1\bin\Debug\net8.0\ClassLibrary1.dll
  Test1= true" Test2=true

where the value of Test1 clearly includes a quotation mark. And the Linux build log has

  Restored /home/vsts/work/1/s/ClassLibrary1/ClassLibrary1/ClassLibrary1.csproj (in 116 ms).
  Test1= true Test2=false
  ClassLibrary1 -> /home/vsts/work/1/s/ClassLibrary1/ClassLibrary1/bin/Debug/net8.0/ClassLibrary1.dll
  Test1= true Test2=false

without the quotation mark.

(The space between Test1= and true comes from your MSBuild code.)

[Varorbc]

My mistake, I ignore it "

What? Your Windows build log shows

  Restored D:\a\1\s\ClassLibrary1\ClassLibrary1\ClassLibrary1.csproj (in 170 ms).
  Test1= true" Test2=true
  ClassLibrary1 -> D:\a\1\s\ClassLibrary1\ClassLibrary1\bin\Debug\net8.0\ClassLibrary1.dll
  Test1= true" Test2=true

[Varorbc]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/process/set-variables-scripts?view=azure-devops&tabs=powershell