X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FREEMAIL_FROM,NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Jim Rome Subject: Re: Spawning Java from C Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:13:28 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <4F4678CB.7030900@gmail.com> <4F469FDF.8010002@cs.umass.edu> <4F470417.3060105@cygwin.com> <4F47A7BB.9010304@cs.umass.edu> <4F47B1DF.6090901@cs.umass.edu> <4F47B486.7090107@cs.umass.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 > Here's the thing I am wondering about: > > In bash, in a " " quoted string, backslash acts kind of as in C and may > need to be escaped (doubled). It can be tricky/painful to find the > right quoting/escaping combination to get what is necessary. In a > ' ' quoted string, you get what you type. So it would be interesting > to see the line that tries to invoke java. You might need to run a > script with -v or -x (or both) in effect to see exactly what bash > is doing ... > That did it, although I think I tried it with no quotes before. I also used Windows paths with / in them. This was really frustrating. Cygwin should have better documentation about issues like this. Thanks for the help, Jim -- 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