From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15594 invoked by alias); 2 Aug 2010 09:31:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 15580 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Aug 2010 09:31:35 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-gy0-f171.google.com (HELO mail-gy0-f171.google.com) (209.85.160.171) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:31:30 +0000 Received: by gyg13 with SMTP id 13so1894988gyg.2 for ; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 02:31:29 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.151.112.19 with SMTP id p19mr1660849ybm.99.1280741488899; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 02:31:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.226.15 with HTTP; Mon, 2 Aug 2010 02:31:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:31:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: How to pass parameters to a windows application From: Andy Koppe To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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/msg00019.txt.bz2 On 2 August 2010 07:49, Dave Hylands wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote: >> 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"" > > Based on your prompt, I'd say that you're not in bash. > > cmd /c start "c:\Documents and Settings\" > > works for me. From the cmd prompt, > > cmd /c "start "c:\Documents and Settings"" > > works. I wrote a little program called open, > http://www.davehylands.com/Software/Open/ > > which opens files the same way as double clicking on them. It also > translates cygwin paths into Win32 paths if you build the cygwin > version. > If passed a directory name, it does the same as choosing "Explore". You should both have a look at 'cygstart'. Andy -- 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