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On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Poor Yorick wrote:

> Greetings, Cygwin users,
>
> From a terminal:
>
> yorick AT yorickp1 ~    yorickp1   21:43:48
> $bash -c "echo $1" yada
>
> yorick AT yorickp1 ~    yorickp1   21:43:52
> $bash -c "echo $*" bright sunshiny day
>
> yorick AT yorickp1 ~    yorickp1   21:45:54
>
> Shouldn't I have gotten some results on stdout?

Try

$ bash -c 'echo $1' bash yada
$ bash -c 'echo /$0/ $*' a bright sunshiny day

A perusal of the "quoting" section of the bash man page might be
particularly instructive.
HTH,
	Igor
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