X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 22:11:27 -0400 From: "Lev Bishop" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problem passing Windows path names from batch file to bash script In-Reply-To: <20061028214504.GA26508@suncomp1.spk.agilent.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20061028034348.GA17030@suncomp1.spk.agilent.com> <31DDB7BE4BF41D4888D41709C476B6570416928D@NIHCESMLBX5.nih.gov> <20061028214504.GA26508@suncomp1.spk.agilent.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On 10/28/06, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2006-10-28, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > > From: Gary Johnson; Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 11:44 PM > > > I am trying to pass Windows path names from a Windows batch file > > > to a Cygwin bash script. I have found a solution using Windows > > > environment variable substitution to replace \s with /s before > > > passing the name to bash, but I cannot figure out how to pass > > > the name without that replacement. The problem is with names of > > > the form > > > > > > "\\host\user\file with spaces" Note the difference between these two: Exhibit A: C:\>set CYGWIN=noglob C:\>\cygwin\bin\echo "\\host\share\file with spaces" \\host\share\file with spaces Exhibit B: C:\>set CYGWIN=glob C:\>\cygwin\bin\echo "\\host\share\file with spaces" \host\share\file with spaces HTH, Lev -- 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/