Want to let variable pass to cygstart.

Dave Korn dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com
Wed Mar 11 04:28:00 GMT 2009


Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> Hi all,

> Any hints on this issue?

  It's bash shell metacharacters.  The '&' character terminates a command and
puts it into the background.  The simplest way is to use single quotes ' '
around the URL you want to cygstart.

    cheers,
      DaveK

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