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Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 11:56:54 -0400
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Subject: Re: syntax for Cygwin bash invoking Win apps
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On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Ziser, Jesse wrote:
>>> $ cmd /c echo "\"abc\""
>>> "\"abc\""
>>>
>>> # Wahhh?!
>>>
>>> Anyone who knows the explanation would make me very grateful. I've tried
>>> this with other Windows apps too, and the same weirdness seems to occur.

Larry Hall:
>>All of the above is consistent with bash shell quoting.

No, it's really not.  Those backslashes should be long gone by the
time cmd.exe gets its arguments, yet it echoes them.  It seems that
the Cygwin version of bash stops short before doing some of the work
it normally does itself on other systems, assuming the executed
command will have its command line run through the preprocessor in the
Cygwin DLL.

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed AT gmail DOT com>

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