syntax for Cygwin bash invoking Win apps
Larry Hall (Cygwin)
reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Wed Sep 9 16:10:00 GMT 2009
On 09/09/2009 11:27 AM, Ziser, Jesse wrote:
<snip>
> Huh? Last time I checked, bash translates "\"abc\"" to "abc".
Yeah, I don't know what test I did last night that made me think this was
right for
bash. The lesson here is that I shouldn't try a bunch of tests quickly late
at night. ;-)
<snip>
> Does "handles quoting" mean that it implements the "Quoting" section, and
> only that section, of the bash manpage? I just need to know exactly what
> it does. It clearly does not *only* do quoting. That's why I
> demonstrated the asterisk example. It is doing at least wildcard
> expansion in addition to quoting. What else is it doing? I'm trying to
> figure this out so I know how to properly escape or quote a general
> command in order to execute it from a Windows application without any
> unexpected changes.
Yeah, actually I'm not sure I understand what's behind this unpredictable
behavior
either. I'd tend to agree with Chris' thought here. It would take more
investigation
to track down what's really going on here.
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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
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