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Re: Win 2000 : Open Files With Word & Excel From The Command Line
- From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz at cris dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 21:14:06 -0800
- Subject: Re: Win 2000 : Open Files With Word & Excel From The Command Line
Steve,
Double damn!
Or maybe... Third time's the charm. Yeah, that's it!
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#!/bin/bash
wwArgs=()
for arg; do
wwArgs[${#wwArgs[@]}]="$(cygpath -m "$arg")"
done
exec "/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office/winword.exe"
"${wwArgs[@]}"
-==-
Randall Schulz
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
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