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Re: Bash fails to run .bat file with spaces in pathname and argument
- From: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:44:23 -0600
- Subject: Re: Bash fails to run .bat file with spaces in pathname and argument
- References: <452D5DF0.9070605@cs.berkeley.edu>
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According to Johnathon Jamison on 10/11/2006 3:11 PM:
> Hello,
>
> I am having some funny behavior. If I have a .bat file that is in a
> directory whose pathname contains a space, and an argument is given to
> the .bat file that has a space in it, then the .bat file fails to run.
> Instead, I get "'xxx' is not recognized as an internal or external
> command, operable program or batch file." where xxx is the portion of
> the complete path to the .bat file before the first space.
Sounds like you need to read up on shell quoting.
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Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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