"ERROR: Path does not exist" when using trailing \ on manifest path (submit) about winget-create HOT 4 OPEN

This appears to be an issue in Command Prompt (cmd) and not PowerShell. Doing some google searches it seems that cmd uses the Microsoft C Runtime behavior for parsing command-line arguments that treats the final backslash as an escape character

A double quote mark preceded by a backslash (") is interpreted as a literal double quote mark (").

You would need to escape the final backslash to treat it as part of the path, or not use double quotes at all if possible. I'm not sure what winget-create could do to offer a better experience here...

In CMD, the following examples work

Escape final backslash

wingetcreate submit ".\manifests\x\xx\xxx\version\\"

Don't use quotes

wingetcreate submit .\manifests\x\xx\xxx\version\

Forward slashes

wingetcreate submit ./manifests/x/xx/xxx/version/

Forward slashes with quotes

wingetcreate submit "./manifests/x/xx/xxx/version/"

This doesn't work in CMD

Quoted backslash

wingetcreate submit ".\manifests\x\xx\xxx\version\"

All of the examples work in PowerShell tho.

References:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73771339/trailing-backslash-in-c-sharp-command-line-parameter-bug-or-feature
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43359103/why-does-c-sharp-appear-to-partially-un-escape-command-line-arguments
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71283820/directory-parameter-on-windows-has-trailing-backslash-replaced-with-double-quote
• rust-lang/rust#72653

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