On Sun, 24 Dec 2017 21:08:17, Steven Penny wrote:
that did it - thanks - this also works:cygstart bash '-c "echo hello; read z"' seems like a problem with cygstart parser? here is the syntax: cygstart [OPTION]... FILE [ARGUMENTS] so should support multiple arguments - this command works as expected cygstart touch 1 2 3 maybe the hyphen in "-c" is causing the problem?
update - cygstart does support multiple arguments, but any spaces will cause a problem. for example this command works fine: cygstart bash -c 'echo;read' but this fails cygstart bash -c 'echo 1;read' and for some reason any spaces must be quoted - not escaped - these work: cygstart bash -c '"echo 1;read"' cygstart bash -c "'echo 1;read'" these fail: cygstart bash -c 'echo\ 1;read' cygstart bash -c "echo\ 1;read" -- 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
