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Why don't you put the stuff to execute into a nice shell script and get rid of the intricacies of quoting on the command line level? That'a way easier to manage and test. --j. On 27.12.2017 00:44, Steven Penny wrote: > On Tue, 26 Dec 2017 17:44:11, cyg Simple wrote: >> If you want to pass quotes to the process on the command line then >> you need >> to quote them or use a backslash on the quote to prevent the shell doing >> the exec to process them. >> >> $ cygstart bash -c \'echo 1\; read\' > > I dont want to pass quotes. Sure, in this case it seems like the way > to go, but > sometimes it might make sense to just escape the problem character(s) > rather > than twice quote the whole thing. > > If thats not possible then fine, but I havent seen someone say that > its not > possible yet, and if so why its not possible. > > > -- > 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 > >
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