Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <37C3E4CF.1FEE64B9@dev.tivoli.com> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 14:42:55 +0200 From: Rob Tulloh X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: B20.1 sh and bash command line parsing question References: <37C3CDD2 DOT F8BD4C58 AT dev DOT tivoli DOT com> <37C3D754 DOT 10C0EB7A AT ibm DOT net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ciao, Erik Schumann wrote: > > Rob Tulloh wrote: > > > > I:\apps\work\cygnus\cygwin-b20>i:/apps/work/cygnus/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/bin/sh.exe > > > -c "if [ -d \"c:/temp\" ] ; then echo \"hi there\" ; fi" > > > Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string > > What about quoting that whitespace too? > I tried this and it didn't work either :-( > i:\tmp>i:/apps/work/cygnus/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~ > 1/bin/sh.exe -c "if [ -d \"c:/temp\" ] ; then echo \"hi\ there\" ; fi" > Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string > > i:\tmp>i:/apps/work/cygnus/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~ > 1/bin/bash.exe -c "if [ -d \"c:/temp\" ] ; then echo \"hi\ there\" ; fi" > there\ ; fi: -c: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"' > there\ ; fi: -c: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file > > i:\tmp>i:/tools/gk/bin/sh.exe -c "if [ -d \ > "c:/temp\" ] ; then echo \"hi\ there\" ; fi" > hi\ there Thanks for the suggestion. I should have mentioned this in my original note. Rob bcc: mailing list > > > > Comments? > > > > Thank you, > > > > Rob Tulloh > > > > cu > Erik -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com