Windows paths, Java, and command-line arguments, oh my!

[Robert Kern]

Steve M wrote:
> I'm trying to invoke a Java command-line program from my Python program
> on Windows XP. I cannot get the paths in one of the arguments to work
> right.
> 
> The instructions for the program describe the following for the
> command-line arguments:
> 
> java -jar sforcedataloader.jar -Dsalesforce.config.dir=CONFIG_DIRECTORY
> 
> They also give an example:
> 
> java -Dsalesforce.config.dir=c:\config -jar sforcedataloader.jar
> 
> If I type the example above at the cmd.exe command line the thing works
> (assuming I have the config file in c:\config). What doesn't work is
> these two lines:
> 
> cmd = r'java -jar sforcedataloader.jar -Dc:\config'

That's not the same thing as the examples you give above. Namely, you're
missing the "salesforce.config.dir=" which is probably pretty
fundamental to telling the program where the salesforce config dir is.

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