Subject: Re: cygnus bugs
From: [email-masked] ("$Bill Luebkert")

15 Jul 1997 22:22:10 -0700
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Fergus Henderson wrote:
> 
> You still didn't answer the question: how can cygwin know which
> arguments are pathnames?  Finding a correct solution to this
> problem is entirely non-trivial.  If you mean that cygwin should
> treat everything that looks like it might be a pathname as a pathname,
> then that is not a correct solution, and I think an incorrect
> solution is going to cause more problems than it solves.

Quote the ones you don't want converted.

> For example, consider the command `sed /usr/p /usr/p'.
> In that command, the first argument is a sed command, meaning
> "print all lines containing `usr'", while the second argument
> is a file name.

sed '/usr/p' /usr/p

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