Not usable on windows (cmd.exe)

[e-d-n-a]

I really like the simple design of this tool and thought using it would be straight forward.
But I tried several kind of selectors, but with almost no success.

OK, I only tried with one html file so far, but at least pup has formated/pretty-printed it correctly, so parsing should work fine, I guess.

As mentioned in Issue 54 single quotes mostly do not work on windows.
I could only filter out something with simple tag selectors using double quotes (e.g. "meta", "head").
Most of the times it does not output anything!

Selector parsing error: Malformed 'contains("")' selector
Using :contains("") always throws an error, no matter how I try to use it.
The source code (selector.go) seems to do this on (for the user) various non-distinguishable cases.

Does anyone use this tool on windows? Is there a trick or does it just not work properly?

[jaraco]

cmd.exe is an old and clumsy tool. I suggest instead using PowerShell, a much more powerful shell for Windows... or if you must, get a Unix-like shell (bash or similar). It probably is possible to write native cmd-compatible commands, but you'll have to get the escape sequences and syntax just right, and in my experience (as a long-time Windows enthusiast), it's just not worth it.

[danielrippa]

What worked for me was escaping quotes with \ as in: \"

Working example:
type rss.html | pup script:contains(\"channel\")