cygutils cygstart eats program arguments
Robert Schmidt
rschm@broadpark.no
Tue Oct 26 00:17:00 GMT 2004
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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