X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT,TW_YG X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:38:39 +0400 From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru> Reply-To: Andrey Repin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> Message-ID: <547025238.20110627173839@mtu-net.ru> To: Peter Rosin <peda AT lysator DOT liu DOT se>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Strange cygpath behavior. In-Reply-To: <4E07A11F.4050405@lysator.liu.se> References: <73619422 DOT 20110621092310 AT mtu-net DOT ru> <4E00321A DOT 30105 AT lysator DOT liu DOT se> <92658329 DOT 20110623165230 AT mtu-net DOT ru> <4E03492D DOT 40109 AT gmail DOT com> <1144668147 DOT 20110623190534 AT mtu-net DOT ru> <4E035F46 DOT 7000207 AT gmail DOT com> <1291997550 DOT 20110623220605 AT mtu-net DOT ru> <4E063FBF DOT 8040103 AT lysator DOT liu DOT se> <48666308 DOT 20110626195750 AT mtu-net DOT ru> <4E07A11F DOT 4050405 AT lysator DOT liu DOT se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com> List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com> List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/> List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs> Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Greetings, Peter Rosin! > As you are apparently using the cmd "shell", the correct way to quote > arguments in order to preserve spaces etc, is to use double quotes > and escape all backslashes with an extra backslash. Ok, please explain, how could I escape backslashes in, say, Explorer? It could only quote the string. I can't even write my own conversion utility :/ No amount of external conversion would help using diff or patch freely. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 27.06.2011, <15:39> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple