On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Ziser, Jesse wrote: >>> $ cmd /c echo "\"abc\"" >>> "\"abc\"" >>> >>> # Wahhh?! >>> >>> Anyone who knows the explanation would make me very grateful. I've tried >>> this with other Windows apps too, and the same weirdness seems to occur.
Larry Hall: >>All of the above is consistent with bash shell quoting. No, it's really not. Those backslashes should be long gone by the time cmd.exe gets its arguments, yet it echoes them. It seems that the Cygwin version of bash stops short before doing some of the work it normally does itself on other systems, assuming the executed command will have its command line run through the preprocessor in the Cygwin DLL. -- Mark J. Reed <markjr...@gmail.com> -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
