Hi: > In your case 1, it looks like you ran that command > from bash. No, I ran it from WINXP command prompt
>It's pretty > obvious why it didn't work - bash needs POSIX paths. > You had unquoted > spaces, which bash interpreted as argument > separators, and it also > interpreted backslashes as escapes. You should have > run that command from > a cmd prompt. > > I also warned you that the name of the script will > be passed in Win32 > form, and you'd need to use cygpath to convert it to > POSIX. The file that > worked for me (I actually created one that works > this time) was: > > @echo off > c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -c "/usr/bin/perl > `/bin/cygpath -u '%1'`" what does this ` character do? just curious, maybe I should read the POSIX manual > You can add similar conversions for %2..%9, but I > don't think they're > necessary in your particular case (i.e., a file > handler for the .pl > extension). You may not need the "--login" - try > running without it, that > will keep you in the same directory. Oh, and the > '#!' line would be > ignored in this case, and the dispatch will be done > by Windows Explorer > based solely on the .pl extension. > > As for case 2, you might have to play similar games, > but in the > association mechanism. Something like > > c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c "`cygpath -u '%s'`" > > (I don't have the exact incantation, you may need to > read up on the > Windows Explorer mechanism for this). another curious question...what's %s? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
