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From: "Lev Bishop" <lev DOT bishop AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Bizarre Cygwin/Explorer/paths problem half-solved
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On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 02:41, Luke Kendall wrote:

> Don't try this variant, though, since it doesn't work:
>
>    explorer /e,"$XPATH" & disown %-
>
> What happens if you try that innocuous-looking variant is that Cygwin
> (or bash?) normalises the path /e,... to a windows path first, producing
> \e,...

Well, yes obviously. This is the difference between:

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 07:04, Lev Bishop  wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 04:18, Luke Kendall wrote:
>
>>    $ explorer /e,"\"c:\temp\space dir\""
>>    $ # NBG^
>
> $ explorer /e,C:\\temp\\space dir
> $ GOOD^

Lev

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