Unnecessary quotation marks?

[sindresorhus]

Unnecessary quotation marks?

[sindresorhus]

You might be right, but it was added for a reason, and it wouldn't be worth changing it now, in case it has some unforseen downsides.

[ScottFreeCode]

To clarify, I don't mean that the argument could be removed altogether -- that would cause start to interpret the filename as the name of a new console window (which is, as I understand it, why it had to be added); I mean that using a string containing "" seems to escape the double-quotes and wrap them in another pair of quotes like start "\"\"", whereas the intention of calling start "" seems to be effected by using an empty string as the argument instead.

Although you're right -- it's working now and I don't know for sure that this obvservation holds for all versions of Node and all versions of Windows; without some way to test it automatically it's hard to say for sure that the behavior I'm seeing is consistent everywhere.

[ScottFreeCode]

Actually did think of a potential automated test just now -- we could open a .bat script that takes some action to indicate success, then wait/watch for that action with an appropriate timeout (might need a little tuning) to be sure the batch script ran. Wouldn't necessarily uncover all possible issues with opening files, but at any rate would demonstrate that start is not misinterpreting the filename as a console window name and failing to run the file.