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Subject: RE: Passing double quotes to DOS
Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 09:21:34 -0400
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> 
> There was a statement saying that cygwin does everything to preserve double
> quotes.
> 


Where is that statement?

> It does not. I was recently doing some symbolic links with "cmd /c mklink "path"
> "filename" " recently and it was fine until I had a file with ampersand.
> 

It isn't Cygwin but the shell semantics that parse the double quotes.

> If I type
> cmd /c mklink "path" "filename"
> 
> cmd.exe is called without doubleqoutes (I use ProcExp to see cmd line).
> 

Because the shell (e.g. bash) processes the data within the quotes; that isn't Cygwin and would happen in any *NIX shell.  Use:

cmd /c mklink '"path"' '"filename"'

instead.  Note the ' before and after (dependent on left or right values) the ".

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