Provide more succinct syntax for long argument lists about simple-exec HOT 4 CLOSED

Hi @mungojam, thanks for raising this.

I still need to give this some more thought but, right now, I'm not yet convinced that the problem of representation of long string arguments is something best solved in SimpleExec. It feels more like a general C# thing, possibly solved with something like the extension method you suggest as an alternative. Also, I'm not sure that the "..." + "..." method is so bad either. Thing is, if you ever needed to pass an argument containing a CR or LF, I guess you wouldn't be able to you were using the CR/LF replacement hack.

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Thanks @mungojam. I'll close this for now, but if you have any more thoughts about it, please don't hesitate to write again.

BTW, here's another option:

Run(
    "dotnet",
    string.Join(
        " ",
        "my-command sub-command",
        "--releases-folder dist\release",
        "--destination https://some-big-long-bucket-location",
        "--intermediates-folder build\something\something-else"));

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Neat thanks, I think that's clear to read and more correct which would normally be my priorities. Thanks for the neat library 🙂

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Hi Adam, thanks for giving it some thought. I think you're probably right and for my use case in our build scripts based on dotnet-script I'm going to need to create some common libraries anyway so I could easily wrap your method with one that replaced the newlines.

I agree that it won't allow for newlines in arguments but then those don't tend to work on the command line anyway afaik because it submits the statement.

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