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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 21:14:06 -0800
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: Win 2000 : Open Files With Word & Excel From The Command
  Line
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Steve,

Double damn!

Or maybe... Third time's the charm. Yeah, that's it!

-==-
#!/bin/bash

wwArgs=()

for arg; do
     wwArgs[${#wwArgs[@]}]="$(cygpath -m "$arg")"
done

exec "/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office/winword.exe" 
"${wwArgs[@]}"
-==-


Randall Schulz


>Steve,
>
>Damn. I forgot the part about converting the argument names from 
>Cygwin / POSIX to Windows.
>
>This is better:
>
>-==-
>#!/bin/bash
>
>wwArgs=()
>
>for arg; do
>     wwArgs${#wwArgs@]}]="$(cygpath -w "$arg")"
>done
>
>exec "/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office/winword.exe" 
>"${wwArgs[@]}"
>-==-
>
>Note that to use the array syntax you have to use BASH.
>
>This is still somewhat limited, in that it assumes all the arguments 
>to the script are file names. I don't know that WINWORD.EXE accepts 
>anything else, but if it does and you want to use them, this would 
>have to be refined further.
>
>Lastly, I guess there is now some Cygwin-specific aspects to this.
>
>Randall Schulz


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