[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #47609] zip.m: errrors when zipping to a directory with spaces in name on Windows

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #47609 (project octave):

I agree that it would be better to not "fix" the wildcard automatically but
document it. My main question is, doesn't this affect every command that
accepts wildcards? Such as dir, ls, glob, gzip, zip, unpack?

My point in comment #2 was because I got confused with all the permutations.
Indicating the path separately works because Octave knows how to chdir to that
path and the zip command with argument "*" then succeeds. I thought I had seen
you post an example that worked with a "backslashed\path\*" argument, but I
was wrong. So yes, I agree this seems like a bug with the zip executable that
we should work around as you indicated.

The condition should be


if (ispc () and ! isunix ())


as used elsewhere in scripts.

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