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Re: syntax for Cygwin bash invoking Win apps
- From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:08:38 -0400
- Subject: Re: syntax for Cygwin bash invoking Win apps
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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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