On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Phil Betts wrote: > Except that single quotes will also prevent variable substitution. If > you want to use metacharacters AND variables, you have to use the > backslash to escape the metacharacters.
...or just use double quotes instead, which allow variable substitution and also the non-variable-substitution metacharacters like &. cygstart "http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext?ID=$MyWileyID&PLACEBO=IE.pdf&mode=pdf"; -- Mark J. Reed <markjr...@gmail.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/
