Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: zzapper Subject: Re: When are Windows Short Path Names required Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:30:04 +0100 Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <435C2A4A.C4D58EA5@dessent.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 17:26:50 -0700, wrote: >zzapper wrote: > >Sometimes it can be hard, especially when you are dealing with both >Cygwin and non-Cygwin programs, because the quoting rules differ. But >it is always possible, and I can't believe that there exists a situation >where you are actually forced to use the short filename. If you have >one, post it. > >Brian See script below sja.exe is actually in program files, my kludge below was to use a mount (rather than the short name) (sja.exe is SQLYOG Job Agent) dirbackup="c:/backup/dosh/" eval filedate=$(date.exe '+%d%b%y') ls -l c:/backup/dosh/doshautoexport.sql sjaprog="/sqlyog/sja.exe" sjascript="c:/cygwin/usr/local/bin/sql/dosh-batch.xml" sjarun="$sjaprog $sjascript"; $sjarun -- zzapper Success for Techies and Vim,Zsh tips http://SuccessTheory.com/ -- 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/