need help with bash -c <command> with cygpath

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 11:59:32PM +0000, Jay wrote:
>When i run
>>cygpath -a '\\uncpath\mydrive$'
>//uncpath/mydrive$
>
>Which is the expected behaivor.
>
>When i run
>>bash -i -c "cygpath -a '\\uncpath\mydrive$'"
>/C/uncpath/mydrive$
>
>Which is not what i want.  I'm trying to pass in the unc path from windows, so
>it needs converted.
>
>Why do i get different results depending on how it is called? 

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To answer your *technical question* - it's because of the way the
backslash is handled within double quotes.

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