Fix Chrome paths with spaces #770
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The issue:
On MacOs the Chrome would not start, shell command ran but exited:
The reason:
The backslashes in -
/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chromeare not interpreted as literal characters by JS, but rather ignored and the resulting JS string was:/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome.Fix:
To resolve this, we need to escape whitespaces as we would escape them in a shell command, by wrapping it in double quotes:
"/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome"Related: nodejs/node#7367 (comment)
Tested on:
MacOS: 13.2.1
NodeJS: v14.21.3