Bash in Git for Windows: Weirdness when running a command with CMD.exe /C with args

Question

This is more of an annoyance rather than a problem but I would very much like to understand the semantics here.

All I want to do is to run an arbitrary command on a

Answer 1

Because you mention that you're using the Git for Windows bundle, I figured I'd point out that it includes winpty, which seems to be quite readable.

$ winpty echo test
test

$ site="Default Web Site"
$ winpty 'C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\appcmd' list site "${site}" /text:ID
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