From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 75095 invoked by alias); 26 Dec 2017 17:43:40 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 75083 invoked by uid 89); 26 Dec 2017 17:43:39 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*UA:github.com, H*M:google X-HELO: mail-oi0-f51.google.com Received: from mail-oi0-f51.google.com (HELO mail-oi0-f51.google.com) (209.85.218.51) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 26 Dec 2017 17:43:38 +0000 Received: by mail-oi0-f51.google.com with SMTP id o64so24040014oia.9 for ; Tue, 26 Dec 2017 09:43:38 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:from:references:to:subject :user-agent; bh=gJ3/rFPkMuJRONoQf347ZsPw1cxWwJYyEfExchJRwNo=; b=T4fieB0RZsMx9WCwWBgwGd3ATkcvfi37VO5oOx1ny2NMPGpGTu6IsWJpms10ObWCU7 zqKu/AWOV/rQBvLTAnXRg7oOoOVM+uPJe4BCc0pg0QZewv5k62+szN1sSwkkkagUyoKE 0wC5+C4NlhfkgSvNS1a3Kli4IIjEaHdfxhWv+6EbBxAI40RWsw1iILO+Ii0WD36XHJOF wLam+u1PXyXDnZ9z1w5fI0ZaIfKr5UUmDm6Hxc36uQ5mV+LxbLI4LwBqidho513sGIis y6DiceuKB9lvTA0NO5Uo91nM6dVo2LCnXLWmUqXdE2gGrRNE04s/hCc9OErqI6w66wmD nVDg== X-Gm-Message-State: AKGB3mKPgBHw4qPbB2KPI2xOlDF2wr2pMWUCzd7Up72Ko1t/xqwVAeva HdZ9L7oI+qix3FknBbJbxxX7BA== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACJfBoumM2xnNZjKW8OYIIDO6wWqmLiGe/zKrvhKsvVp+vI45CA9HtdpzqO58gHcQGZKIUAVl+gbAg== X-Received: by 10.202.186.215 with SMTP id k206mr17193164oif.345.1514310216680; Tue, 26 Dec 2017 09:43:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from emF ([2605:6000:9fc0:56:c54d:2844:d0c:ba]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id j74sm7887771otj.35.2017.12.26.09.43.35 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 26 Dec 2017 09:43:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5a428a47.d0179d0a.4c14c.fe57@mx.google.com> Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 19:12:00 -0000 From: Steven Penny X-Google-Original-From: Steven Penny References: <5a4087c1.cdebca0a.a4e97.8eb3@mx.google.com> To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Run command in new window Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8; format=flowed User-Agent: Tryst/2.0.1 (github.com/svnpenn/tryst) X-SW-Source: 2017-12/txt/msg00260.txt.bz2 On Sun, 24 Dec 2017 21:08:17, Steven Penny wrote: > that did it - thanks - this also works: > > cygstart bash '-c "echo hello; read z"' > > seems like a problem with cygstart parser? here is the syntax: > > cygstart [OPTION]... FILE [ARGUMENTS] > > so should support multiple arguments - this command works as expected > > cygstart touch 1 2 3 > > maybe the hyphen in "-c" is causing the problem? update - cygstart does support multiple arguments, but any spaces will cause a problem. for example this command works fine: cygstart bash -c 'echo;read' but this fails cygstart bash -c 'echo 1;read' and for some reason any spaces must be quoted - not escaped - these work: cygstart bash -c '"echo 1;read"' cygstart bash -c "'echo 1;read'" these fail: cygstart bash -c 'echo\ 1;read' cygstart bash -c "echo\ 1;read" -- 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