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I am using a JScript to run a query using es.exe and writing the output to a temp file. When I execute the following non-regex query..

es.exe -export-txt C:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Temp\es.txt thunderbird.exe

..the expected output is written correctly to the es.txt temp file. However, when I use the -r option to introduce regex into the mix...

es.exe -r -export-txt C:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Temp\es.txt thunderbird.exe

..nothing is written to the temp file. Executing exactly the same regex query from a DOS command line works just fine.

Any idea what I might be doing wrong?

Regards, AB

I maybe wrong, but shouldn't you escape "\" with "\" when calling from JS?

That would not explain how or why it works without the -r option.

Interestingly, after further monkeying around, I have been able to get it working using a different approach. The way I was doing it is...
..where str is along the lines of..

pushd c:\esfolder & es.exe -options search-term & popd

I changed to create a three line C:\my.cmd file...
..which I then execute using the same technique
This works with the -r option.

Regards, AB