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Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 00:37:23 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Supressing @path expansion
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On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 12:27:54AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
>I'm wondering if there is a way to make a cygwin-compiled program always
>receive its @pathname arguments unexpanded.

The '@' processing is invoked when a cygwin application is run from a
non-cygwin app but is ignored when running a cygwin program via a cygwin
program.

So, this will work:

bash% echo @foo

This won't:

c:\> c:\cygwin\bin\echo @foo

However, quoting the '@argument' should stop this behavior:

c:\> c:\cygwin\bin\echo '@foo'

cgf

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