<p>The bug is here in the quoting mechanism used to spawn commands, as it should have escaped the <code>\</code>, not in allowing a backslash in the file name.</p>

<p>It's a mostly known bug that is unfortunately annoyingly hard to fix without risking to break existing setups or limiting valid use cases.</p>

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