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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 14:37:25 -0400
From: Ivan Dobrianov <ivan AT dobrianov DOT net>
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Subject: Executing a script that needs DOS path
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Sorry if this has been answered a hundred times, but could not find 
anything the FAQ, doc, or archives.

THE PROBLEM:

o Say I have some intrepreter xxx.exe, that expects to get started like 
this
xxx c:\home\my_script.xxx <arg_1> <arg_2> ...

o I want to automate this process the usual way, by adding this to the 
begining of the script:

#!/c/bin/xxx
...

hoping to be able to say:
my_script.xxx <arg_1> <arg_2>

o *** This fails, because cygwin [or bash] passes the unix path 
/c/home/my_script.xxx to xxx.exe which it cannot interpret.

Is there a solution to this OTHER THAN using a proxy shell that would do 
the unix-to-dos translation? The reason I don't like this solution is 
that the shell will glob and eat quotes, making it very hard to process 
filenames with spaces.

Thanks for any hints!


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