Re: Win 2000 : Open Files With Word & Excel From The Command Line

[Randall R Schulz <rrschulz at cris dot com>]

Steve,

Damn. I forgot the part about converting the argument names from Cygwin 
/ POSIX to Windows.

This is better:

-==-
#!/bin/bash

wwArgs=()

for arg; do
    wwArgs${#wwArgs@]}]="$(cygpath -w "$arg")"
done

exec "/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office/winword.exe" 
"${wwArgs[@]}"
-==-

Note that to use the array syntax you have to use BASH.

This is still somewhat limited, in that it assumes all the arguments to 
the script are file names. I don't know that WINWORD.EXE accepts 
anything else, but if it does and you want to use them, this would have 
to be refined further.

Lastly, I guess there is now some Cygwin-specific aspects to this.

Randall Schulz


> Steve,
>
> Do your scripts look something like this:
>
> -==-
> #!/bin/sh
>
> exec "/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office/winword.exe" "$@"
> -==-
>
> If they're missing the "$@" part, they're not passing on the arguments 
> you give the script to "winword.exe" or "excel.exe". The "exec" part 
> at the beginning is optional, but definitely recommended in cases like this.
>
>
> Oh, and to satisfy Thorsten: This is scripting 101 stuff and is in no 
> way Cygwin-specific.
>
>
> Randall Schulz
>
>
> At 19:55 2003-02-14, Steve wrote:
> > Hi;
> >
> > I'm on win 2000 and I am using cygwin.
> >
> > I put script files called "word" and "excel" in my /usr/local/bin. 
> > These files have the path to the ms word and ms excel executables.
> >
> > They work, they bring up the apps, but I can't get the apps to take 
> > command line arguments to open remote files.
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > cygwin> word c:/docs/memos/parking/myfile.doc
> >
> > opens only word not "myfile.doc".
> >
> > Is there any way around this?  I would love to be able to do this as 
> > it is monumentally faster then scrolling through a file dialog box or 
> > explorer to open up a file.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Steve

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