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Subject: | RE: Re: Want to let variable pass to cygstart. |
Date: | Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:05:13 -0000 |
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Hongyi Zhao wrote: > On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:37:46 +0000, Dave Korn > <dave DOT korn DOT cygwin AT xxxxxxxxxx DOT xxx> wrote: Please don't quote raw email addresses. It only feeds the spammers. > > It's bash shell metacharacters. The '&' character terminates a > command and > >puts it into the background. The simplest way is to use single quotes > ' ' > >around the URL you want to cygstart. >=20 > Thanks a lot. Except that single quotes will also prevent variable substitution. If=20 you want to use metacharacters AND variables, you have to use the=20 backslash to escape the metacharacters. Alternatively, you could concatenate strings like this: 'stringA&stringB'$variable'stringC&stringD' Phil --=20 This email has been scanned by Ascribe PLC using Microsoft Antigen for Exch= ange. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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