[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: OS-COMMAND Escape Ampersand Inconsistency

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I've had similar issues, specially when dealing with Unix and Windows. The simple solution is to make a bat script (sh on linux) and invoke that script. If you need to pass parameters to the script from ABL, use an intermediate file, where each line is a parameter (or give it an ini format, or json, or xml, or...). No need to scape anything in ABL, if scaping is needed, implement it in the bat/sh script.

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