From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18914 invoked by alias); 2 Aug 2010 15:55:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 18906 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Aug 2010 15:55:16 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mr0.ht-systems.ru (HELO mr0.ht-systems.ru) (78.110.50.55) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:55:08 +0000 Received: from [217.197.113.196] (helo=darkdragon) by mr0.ht-systems.ru with esmtpa (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1OfxLy-0001mH-JG; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:55:02 +0400 Received: from [192.168.1.10] (HELO daemon2.darkdragon) by daemon1 (Office Mail Server 0.8.12 build 08053101) with SMTP; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:54:18 -0000 Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:55:00 -0000 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: Andrey Repin Message-ID: <517372938.20100802195417@mtu-net.ru> To: "Jason Pyeron" , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How to pass parameters to a windows application In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2010-08/txt/msg00036.txt.bz2 Greetings, Jason Pyeron! > I am at my wits end trying to figure out how to execute this in bash C:\WINDOWS>>cmd /c "start "" "C:\Documents and Settings\All > Users\Desktop\projects\crisfield\trunk\etc"" > jpyeron@phoenix /projects/crisfield > $ cmd /c "\"start \"\" \"C:\\Documents and Settings\\All > Users\\Desktop\\projects\\crisfield\\trunk\\etc\"\"" > The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. $ cmd /c start "" "C:/Documents and Settings/All Users/Desktop/projects/crisfield/trunk/etc" Windows support both (more precise would be "see no difference between) "/" and "\" as directory separators. Since DOS 3.3 at least. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 02.08.2010, <19:51> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple