Passing double quotes to DOS

[Pavel Tsekov]

Richard Gilbert wrote:

> I need to be able to pass double quotes to a program running under NT4/DOS
> but I cannot find a way of doing so.  To illustrate the problem I have
> written a trivial BAT file called e.bat which contains the single line
> 
> echo %1
> 
> If I run it from a DOS shell with a double quoted parameter it echoes the
> parameter with the double quotes intact, e.g.
> 
> C:>e.bat "abc"
> C:>echo "abc"	(<-- the BAT file echoes the command)
> "abc"
> 
> However, if I run this program from a bash shell (or tcsh) in the cygwin
> environment, I cannot find a way of passing the double quotes to the
> program...
> 
> $ e.bat "abc"
> C:>echo abc
> abc
> 
> (as expected)
> 
> $ e.bat "\"abc\""
> C:>echo "\"abc\""
> echo "\"abc\""
> 
> $ e.bat '"abc"'
> C:>echo "\"abc\""
> echo "\"abc\""


I dont understand the output of the last example ? Is it really the

same like the output of the second sample or it's just copy and
paste mistake ? (DISCLAIMER: My understanding of shell scripts is not 
that deep so if I'm asking something very stupid here, please ignore it)


> Note that both the last two result in the same command being passed to
> the BAT file.
> 
> Can anybody tell me how to do it?


Does this help: e.bat \"abc\"


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