Trailing backslash in dest-dir and error message

[fra87]

Hi

I'm having some problems trying to launch the program from command line. If I write

"C:\Program Files\KiCad\10.0\bin\python.exe" "C:\Users\user\Documents\KiCad\10.0\3rdparty\/plugins/org_openscopeproject_InteractiveHtmlBom/generate_interactive_bom.py" --dest-dir "docs" --no-browser --checkboxes Placed --include-tracks SmartRelay_4CH.kicad_pcb

the command succeeds. If, on the other hand, I write

"C:\Program Files\KiCad\10.0\bin\python.exe" "C:\Users\user\Documents\KiCad\10.0\3rdparty\/plugins/org_openscopeproject_InteractiveHtmlBom/generate_interactive_bom.py" --dest-dir "docs\" --no-browser --checkboxes Placed --include-tracks SmartRelay_4CH.kicad_pcb

(so with a trailing backslash in the --dest-dir parameter) the command fails with the message:

generate_interactive_bom.py: error: the following arguments are required: file

I'd need this since I'm writing a custom jobset (not working due to KiCad 10 issues with paths, so work in progress) and I want to put the file in ${JOBSET_OUTPUT_WORK_PATH}, but this variable has a trailing backslash.

The workaround is to write "${JOBSET_OUTPUT_WORK_PATH}." to remove the trailing backslash, but it would be useful to avoid using hacks

[qu1ck]

I can't reproduce, it works fine for me with or without trailing slash.

Are you sure you have quoted it right? It seems the closing quote is ignored and arg parser consideres everything you have after --dest-dir part of the parameter so can't find file parameter.

If your path doesnt have spaces you can omit quotes.