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From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen" <garbage_collector AT telia DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Strange Cygwin issue
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 11:28:39 +0200
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> From: Dylan Cuthbert
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 8:10 AM

> Did you sort this problem out eventually?  We're having the same problem.
> 
> We pass a DOS command that we've compiled in Vis.C a parameter 
> from within a
> bash shell and all our quotes are "played" with.
> 
> ie.   #> ourcommand   'my oh my "this is a string" that is played with'
> 
> and we get    "my oh my \"this is a string\" that is played with"
> (including the surrounding double quotes) in our DOS program.
> 
> Not what we want really.

 I'd say; play with temporary files.

e.g:
$ echo >/tmp/tmp_$$ "command arg1 \"arg2.1 arg2.2\" arg.3"
$ cmd /c $(cygpath -WA /tmp/tmp_$$)
$ rm /tmp/tmp_$$

/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59?16.37'N, 17?12.60'E
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