From: "Jürgen Wagner" <juergen@wagner.is>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Run command in new window
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 01:38:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <844ea576-1047-8366-d5b0-36a7ac2a5be7@wagner.is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5a42dee8.9ba6ca0a.5e71f.56c1@mx.google.com>
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Why don't you put the stuff to execute into a nice shell script and get
rid of the intricacies of quoting on the command line level?
That'a way easier to manage and test.
--j.
On 27.12.2017 00:44, Steven Penny wrote:
> 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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-27 1:11 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
2017-12-27 1:38 ` Jürgen Wagner [this message]
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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