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Subject: dumb escaping question when using Cygwin +  NT commands
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 18:15:41 -0400
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Hello,

I get this odd problem when calling NT commands from Cygwin. I am single-quoting the data, but the way I'm doing things (probably wrong...) does not like passing $1 function arguments to NT commands. If I hardcode the arguments internally, everything works.

The two example functions below are intended to behave identical.

#!/bin sh

mount_drive () {
   # Syntax: net 'use' '*' '\\redhat\foo' 'foo' '/user:foo'
   net 'use' 'F:' '\\redhat\foo' 'foo' '/user:foo'

   echo "The command returned $?"
   return $?;
}

mount_drive2 () {
   net '$1' '$2' '$3' '$4' '$5'
   echo "we saw in mount_drive2: '$1' '$2' '$3' '$4' '$5' "

   echo "The command returned $?"
   return $?;
}

# 
mount_drive
mount_drive2 'use' 'G:' '\\redhat\foo' 'foo' '/user:foo'
############# END SCRIPT


the output I get from mount_drive2 is standard "usage info", indicating I passed arguments incorrectly. However the debug echo *looks* correct.

Someone please point out my mistake, else I'm doomed to some ugly hackish workarounds ;-)

Thanks,

Scott

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