X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,BOTNET,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,TW_YW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <4D83D60C.3080702@cygwin.com> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:00:44 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin (1.7.8 and other versions) problems with globbing when invoked from DOS/Windows with nested quotes References: In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 3/18/2011 2:39 PM, Alex Khripin wrote: > Hi, > > Short summary: getting nested quotes in an argument through to a > Cygwin process from DOS is problematic, and there does not seem to be > any detailed spec for how to escape quotes correctly. Backslash > characters seem to be spuriously generated. If you're using a native Windows 'make' with a Cywgin shell, you're better off making your tools consistent. Quoting mechanisms for Windows do not align with those used by Cygwin/Linux/Unix, so things are already problematic. Passing in a DOS path to a Cygwin shell and expecting the output to be properly quoted for a Windows version of 'make' is just asking for trouble. So I'd recommend staying on one side of the fence or the other if you want to minimize headaches. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple