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From: Steven Penny <svnpenn@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Run command in new window
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 01:16:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5a42dee8.9ba6ca0a.5e71f.56c1@mx.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e12dbeac-a27f-4f41-42c6-d5467433c553@gmail.com>

On Tue, 26 Dec 2017 17:44:11, cyg Simple wrote:
> If you want to pass quotes to the process on the command line then you need
> to quote them or use a backslash on the quote to prevent the shell doing
> the exec to process them.
> 
> $ cygstart bash -c \'echo 1\; read\'

I dont want to pass quotes. Sure, in this case it seems like the way to go, but
sometimes it might make sense to just escape the problem character(s) rather
than twice quote the whole thing.

If thats not possible then fine, but I havent seen someone say that its not
possible yet, and if so why its not possible.


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  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-26 23:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-25  3:50 Steven Penny
2017-12-25  4:06 ` Andrey Repin
2017-12-25  4:37   ` Steven Penny
2017-12-25  4:54     ` Dave Caswell
2017-12-25  5:11       ` Steven Penny
2017-12-26 17:43         ` Dave Caswell
2017-12-26 18:54           ` Steven Penny
2017-12-26 19:12             ` Steven Penny
2017-12-26 19:41               ` Dave Caswell
2017-12-26 23:44                 ` Steven Penny
2017-12-27  1:11                   ` cyg Simple
2017-12-27  1:16                     ` Steven Penny [this message]
2017-12-27  1:38                       ` Jürgen Wagner
2017-12-27 22:46                         ` Steven Penny
2017-12-27  9:39                     ` Steven Penny
2017-12-28 12:07                       ` cyg Simple
2017-12-28 20:11                         ` Steven Penny
2017-12-26 22:44               ` cyg Simple

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