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Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 19:54:17 +0400
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru>
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Greetings, Jason Pyeron!

> I am at my wits end trying to figure out how to execute this in bash

C:\WINDOWS>>cmd /c "start "" "C:\Documents and Settings\All
> Users\Desktop\projects\crisfield\trunk\etc""

> jpyeron AT phoenix /projects/crisfield
> $ cmd /c "\"start \"\" \"C:\\Documents and Settings\\All
> Users\\Desktop\\projects\\crisfield\\trunk\\etc\"\""
> The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

$ cmd /c start "" "C:/Documents and Settings/All Users/Desktop/projects/crisfield/trunk/etc"

Windows support both (more precise would be "see no difference between) "/"
and "\" as directory separators. Since DOS 3.3 at least.


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 Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 02.08.2010, <19:51>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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