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On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 01:58:12PM -0500, Tim McDaniel wrote:
>That's most unpleasant.  I don't suppose there's any way to control
>Cygwin's bash in re where to put double quotes around arguments being
>passed to a Windows command (since getting Microsoft to make
>explorer.exe be sane is hopeless)?  Except by not using characters that
>bash thinks need quoting.

I'd be very surprised if bash was doing anything different for Windows
than it does for linux.  cygwin1.dll does do some quoting of arguments
to non-cygwin programs if it thinks it is required.  But, no, we're not
going to implement a complicated scheme to turn that off for random
programs.  If you don't like the behavior, right a C program to fix
things up.

cgf

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