On Tue, 26 Dec 2017 11:54:14, Dave Caswell wrote:
$ cygstart -v bash -c \'echo 1\;read \' ShellExecute(NULL, "(null)", "bash", "-c 'echo 1;read '", "(null)", 1) By escaping the quotes and semicolon so they get passed along intact, the executed bash also gets an intact command string.
this is interesting, but it doesnt explain (or im not understanding) why it will accept a quoted string and not an escaped one. in a normal setting, these commands are identical: $ bash -c 'echo; read' + bash -c 'echo; read' $ bash -c echo\;\ read + bash -c 'echo; read' but with cygstart this command works: cygstart bash -c '"echo; read"' and this does not: cygstart bash -c 'echo\;\ 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
