X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:00:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" cc: "McGraw, Robert P." , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: window command in bash In-Reply-To: <31DDB7BE4BF41D4888D41709C476B65704168D0A@NIHCESMLBX5.nih.gov> Message-ID: References: <31DDB7BE4BF41D4888D41709C476B65704168D0A AT NIHCESMLBX5 DOT nih DOT gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > McGraw, Robert P. wrote: > > I have a window command that I want to execute in a bash script. > > > > In my .bat file the command is > > > > AgBackup.exe /notext c:\Alligate\agbackupfiles > > > > I tried to execute this command in a bash window and the command > > works but is does not seem to recognize the parameters. The > > "c:\alligate...." is the path where a backup is written. In the bash > > script the backup file is written in the default location. > [snip] > > In a shell script what is the proper way to pass parameters to a > > window program? > > A Windows program will think that /cygdrive/c/Alligate/agbackupfiles are > options, not a path. > > Did you quote the path or escape the backslashes to protect the > backslashes from the shell interpreting them as escape characters? > E.g., > AgBackup.exe /notext 'c:\Alligate\agbackupfiles' > or > AgBackup.exe /notext "c:\Alligate\agbackupfiles" A minor correction: you still need to escape the backslashes when using double quotes, so the right way is AgBackup.exe /notext "c:\\Alligate\\agbackupfiles" > or > AgBackup.exe /notext c:\\Alligate\\agbackupfiles > > You should read > in the Cygwin User's Guide , and > especially > . HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu | igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/