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Re: cygutils cygstart eats program arguments

Mark Paulus wrote: 
Have you tried using a -- to indicate end of arguments
to cygstart:

cygstart -- tail --version


Thanks! No, I hadn't, and that works great.

I still find the usage syntax to be misleading though:
Usage: cygstart [OPTION]... FILE [ARGUMENTS]

What are ARGUMENTS if not to be passed to the execution of FILE? (For people relatively new to the nuances of cygwin/Linux (like myself), '--' is a pretty obscure feature.)


Cheers,
Rob


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