X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT,TW_YG X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:38:39 +0400 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: Andrey Repin Message-ID: <547025238.20110627173839@mtu-net.ru> To: Peter Rosin , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Strange cygpath behavior. In-Reply-To: <4E07A11F.4050405@lysator.liu.se> References: <73619422.20110621092310@mtu-net.ru> <4E00321A.30105@lysator.liu.se> <92658329.20110623165230@mtu-net.ru> <4E03492D.40109@gmail.com> <1144668147.20110623190534@mtu-net.ru> <4E035F46.7000207@gmail.com> <1291997550.20110623220605@mtu-net.ru> <4E063FBF.8040103@lysator.liu.se> <48666308.20110626195750@mtu-net.ru> <4E07A11F.4050405@lysator.liu.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 Greetings, Peter Rosin! > As you are apparently using the cmd "shell", the correct way to quote > arguments in order to preserve spaces etc, is to use double quotes > and escape all backslashes with an extra backslash. Ok, please explain, how could I escape backslashes in, say, Explorer? It could only quote the string. I can't even write my own conversion utility :/ No amount of external conversion would help using diff or patch freely. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 27.06.2011, <15:39> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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