Re: pass arguments enclosed with double quotes from bash shell to windows program

2016-04-03 Thread Vlado
On 2.4.2016 20:59, Cary Lewis wrote: I need to start acrobat from a bash shell. Acrobat needs some of its parameters to be enclosed with double quotes. This is needed to automatically open and print a pdf. When I try to do that directly from a bash shell, I can't get it to pass arguments enclos

Re: pass arguments enclosed with double quotes from bash shell to windows program

2016-04-02 Thread René Berber
On 4/2/2016 2:19 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: > Have you tried: '"arg"' ? bash should strip the ' ' and leave the " ". > Also, what about "\"foo\"" ? > > My experiments with this suggest that they work. I tried invoked a .bat > file that echoes its first argument, and it did show "\"foo\"", but I > su

Re: pass arguments enclosed with double quotes from bash shell to windows program

2016-04-02 Thread Eliot Moss
On 4/2/2016 2:59 PM, Cary Lewis wrote: I need to start acrobat from a bash shell. Acrobat needs some of its parameters to be enclosed with double quotes. This is needed to automatically open and print a pdf. When I try to do that directly from a bash shell, I can't get it to pass arguments encl

Re: pass arguments enclosed with double quotes from bash shell to windows program

2016-04-02 Thread Michael Enright
On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 11:59 AM, Cary Lewis wrote: > I need to start acrobat from a bash shell. > > Acrobat needs some of its parameters to be enclosed with double > quotes. This is needed to automatically open and print a pdf. > > > If I try to do a \", then it passes the \" to the windows app. I

pass arguments enclosed with double quotes from bash shell to windows program

2016-04-02 Thread Cary Lewis
I need to start acrobat from a bash shell. Acrobat needs some of its parameters to be enclosed with double quotes. This is needed to automatically open and print a pdf. When I try to do that directly from a bash shell, I can't get it to pass arguments enclosed with the double quotes. It will do