On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Luke Kendall wrote:
On 4 Aug, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:explorer /e,$XPATH & disown %-Don't try this variant, though, since it doesn't work: explorer /e,"$XPATH" & disown %- What happens if you try that innocuous-looking variant is that Cygwin (or bash?) normalises the path /e,... to a windows path first, producing \e,...
I'm an utter fanatic about quoting to make sure that what I have in variables isn't munged. So I'm dismayed to learn that quoting can *cause* munging and that something munges values in new and exciting ways. Is there any documentation on who rewrites arguments, under what conditions, and how they're altered? -- Tim McDaniel, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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/
