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Looks like you have a space between

-DKotest

and

.filter.specs

Are you maybe using powershell? Argument parsing is completely different from many other shells (particularly Linux or Mac shells). Try using

./gradlew --% test -DKotest.filter.specs='*'

or

./gradlew test "-DKotest.filter.specs=*"

then.

yep im using powershell

Ah, right, that PowerShell thingy

there's pretty much no reason to use powershell, right? since you have bash as part of git for windows, and you always need git anyway

That's not a reason. People can just prefer to use PowerShell as their shell. Some even on Linux or Mac.

I have not configured intellij to run on WSL (I did do so for clion).

They just need to learn how PowerShell might break their commands by doing too-intelligent argument parsing

re: i mean if you need bash outside of wsl, it comes with git for windows.

I have not configured intellij to run on WSL

You don't need to, you could simply use the Git for Windows Bash that you most probably have installed anyway as David mentioned

Yes i have git for windows which I normally use for git. For clion I needed WSL for linux testing as because C++ is a nightmare, I had to have different build files for different OS platforms