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Subject: RE:  Re: Want to let variable pass to cygstart.
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:05:13 -0000
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Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:37:46 +0000, Dave Korn
> <dave DOT korn DOT cygwin AT xxxxxxxxxx DOT xxx> wrote:

Please don't quote raw email addresses.  It only feeds the spammers.

> >  It's bash shell metacharacters.  The '&' character terminates a
> command and
> >puts it into the background.  The simplest way is to use single
quotes
> ' '
> >around the URL you want to cygstart.
>=20
> Thanks a lot.

Except that single quotes will also prevent variable substitution.  If=20
you want to use metacharacters AND variables, you have to use the=20
backslash to escape the metacharacters.

Alternatively, you could concatenate strings like this:
  'stringA&stringB'$variable'stringC&stringD'


Phil
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