From: Dave Caswell <dave.caswell@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Run command in new window
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 17:43:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG2dRtE0DL3BP9=mXnP_r0-JALg7gZf69j3wR+Mma4=bAU_L6w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5a407fe6.2f079d0a.76591.2ebc@mx.google.com>
On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 9:34 PM, Steven Penny <svnpenn@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> yes, that is good if you want to use a script - but a command does not work:
>
> cygstart bash -c 'echo hello; sleep 5'
>
Ah, OK. Here you go:
davec@SodiumWin ~
$ cygstart /usr/bin/bash '-c "echo hello; sleep 5"'
I wish I could explain just why this quotation pattern works here. A
long time ago I found that dicking around with the quotes could often
get things working faster than trying to understand it in detail.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-25 4:54 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 [this message]
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
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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