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. ;-)
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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
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