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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:33:20 -0700
From: Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net>
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According to Dave Korn on 1/11/2008 9:38 AM:
|   I believe what is needed is 1) outer double-quotes, for cmd's benefit, 2)
| inner single-quotes, for bash's benefit, 3) double up the slashes /as well/,
| because there's one more level of quoting being stripped than I can account
| for, but anyway it works for me:
|
| C:\Documents and Settings\dk>C:\cygwin\bin\bash -v -x -c
"'\\\\UNC_PATH\\Dir'"
| '\\UNC_PATH\Dir'
| + '\\UNC_PATH\Dir'
| /usr/bin/bash: \\UNC_PATH\Dir: command not found

"'\\'" - the " quotes are stripped and \\ collapsed by cmd.exe => '\'
'\' - the ' quotes are stripped by bash on execution => \

|   If I wasn't trying to execute a directory but list it instead, I'd say
|
| C:\cygwin\bin\bash -v -x -c "ls -la '\\\\UNC_PATH\\Dir'"

Which means:

bash -vxc "ls -la \\\\\\\\UNC_PATH\\\\Dir"

will also work (8 leading \ converted to 4 by cmd, then 4 converted to 2
by bash, so that ls sees an argument with 2 leading \).

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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