Re: window command in bash

2006-07-18 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Igor Peshansky wrote: Exactly. Case in point: UNC paths. Both "\\machine\share" and"\machine\share" will refer to the string '\machine\share'. To really reference a UNC path, you'll need to say "machine\\share". So why not double the backslashes anyway and save yourself the confusion? Perso

Re: window command in bash

2006-07-18 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, mwoehlke wrote: > Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > > Igor Peshansky wrote: > > > On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > > > > Did you quote the path or escape the backslashes to protect the > > > > backslashes from the shell interpreting them

Re: window command in bash

2006-07-18 Thread mwoehlke
Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: Igor Peshansky wrote: On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: Did you quote the path or escape the backslashes to protect the backslashes from the shell interpreting them as escape characters? E.g., AgBackup.exe /notext 'c:\

RE: window command in bash

2006-07-18 Thread Buchbinder, Barry \(NIH/NIAID\) [E]
Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > >> McGraw, Robert P. wrote: >>> I have a window command that I want to execute in a bash script. >>> >>> In my .bat file the command is >>> >>> AgBackup.exe /notext c:\Alligate\agbackupfiles >>> >>> I tr

RE: window command in bash

2006-07-18 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > McGraw, Robert P. wrote: > > I have a window command that I want to execute in a bash script. > > > > In my .bat file the command is > > > > AgBackup.exe /notext c:\Alligate\agbackupfiles > > > > I tried to execute this command in

Re: window command in bash

2006-07-18 Thread Shaffer, Kenneth
>In a shell script what is the proper way to pass parameters to a window >program? Parameters are passed normally but special characters have to be "quoted". The backslashes (\) are interpreted by the shell, so quote each of them by entering \\ - - - - - Appended by Scientific Atlanta, a

RE: window command in bash

2006-07-18 Thread Buchbinder, Barry \(NIH/NIAID\) [E]
McGraw, Robert P. wrote: > I have a window command that I want to execute in a bash script. > > In my .bat file the command is > > AgBackup.exe /notext c:\Alligate\agbackupfiles > > I tried to execute this command in a bash window and the command > works but is does not seem to recognize t