Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/07/02/14:43:05
Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net> wrote around 02 Jul 2003
news:3F02DA32 DOT EAD1FC18 AT dessent DOT net:
> "%CYGROOT%\\bin\\bash -c \"echo -n `/bin/cygpath -u
> '%l'`>/dev/clipboard\"" + NewLine
>
> When I run the command I get an error. The proper quoting is
>
> "%CYGROOT%\bin\bash" -c "echo -n `/bin/cygpath -u '%l'`>/dev/clipboard"
>
> You don't want to escape the double-quotes because they are there to
> tell the windows shell to make all that stuff a single arg, after -c.
> You need double quotes around the exe image in the off chance there's
> a space in $CYGROOT.
This is fun and bizarre because on win98SE this seems to work for me; the
whole thing "just works". Windows is SO inconsistent.
One thing that complicates comparison of my setup with others is that my
Windows "shell" (the kind shipped by M$) is set to "CMD.exe" from a Win2K
SDK that "mostly" runs on Win9x, instead of the "normal" COMMAND.COM. It is
entirely possible I think that the first pass at processing the command is
being done by whatever %COMSPEC% points to and that the two would have (do
have) different quoting rules should come as a surprise to no-one.
> And there's the issue of the raw binary newline at the end.
That was a goof, I was too close to bedtime to try to send in a fix for
that before turning in.
> The hexified version of that is
> hex(2):22,25,43,59,47,52,4f,4f,54,25,5c,62,69,6e,5c,62,61,73,68,22,20,2
> d,63,20,22,65,63,68,6f,20,2d,6e,20,60,2f,62,69,6e,2f,63,79,67,70,61,74,
> 68,20,2d,75,20,27,25,6c,27,60,3e,2f,64,65,76,2f,63,6c,69,70,62,6f,61,72
> ,64,22,00
>
>
> ----
>
> Anyway, the Right Way (IMHO) to do this would be something like the
> following
Escalated to C! Yeah! OK, NOW we're rockin'. ;-)
More later.
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