Ugh, top-posting. Reformatted. On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Peter Farley wrote:
> --- Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks. > > Peter Farley wrote: > > > > > I tried to use cygstart to execute bash with the > > > "-c" option to execute a command and then > > > terminate. Here's what I get: > > > > > > $ cygstart bash -c echo Hi There > > > cygstart: bad argument -c: unknown option > > > > The problem that you are running into is that you > > need to tell cygstart that the -c and following > > arguments are meant for the child process, and > > are not arguments to cygstart itself. '--' is a > > standard way of doing this, which indicates to the > > program that all of the following arguments > > should not be interpreted as switches but just > > regular data. So "cygstart -- bash -c ..." ought > > to work. > > > > You will have to be careful with the quoting of the > > stuff after -c though. Cygstart is designed to use > > Windows-native methods to start a process. If > > you're using it to start a Cygwin process, and you > > want to have an argument with spaces in it (as is > > the case with any nontrivial -c) then you will have > > to be very careful with how you use quotes to > > ensure that the Cygwin->Windows->Cygwin conversion > > of the argv[] works correctly. It would be much > > simpler to do something like: rxvt -e bash -c "echo > > whatever". > > Thank you Brian, I will try both of those. > Fortunately none of the aruments I may need to use for > the real application will contain spaces, but it is > good advice that I will remember nonetheless. Peter, beware that the need for quoting isn't just for spaces, but for any shell and cmd metacharacters (they are different). So, for example, any use of '^' or '&' or '>' needs to be properly quoted *after* the conversion Brian mentioned. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
