John Wiersba wrote August 03, 2012 3:18 PM >Calling /c/program\ files/microsoft\ office/office12/winword.exe >"a b c.doc" works. >Calling cygstart /c/program\ files/microsoft\ office/office12/winword.exe "a b >c.doc" tries to open a.doc, b.doc, and c.doc.
In the first, bash strips the quotes and passes <a b c.doc> to winword as arg1. In the second, bash strips the quotes and passes <a b c.doc> to cygstart as arg1. cygstart then passes <a>, <b>, and <c.doc> to winword as arg1, arg2, and arg3. At least that is the way I understand it. Subject to correction by the more knowledgeable. So try protecting your double quotes with single quotes. E.g. '"a b c.doc"'. I don't know if the double quotes get passed to winword, but there is a lesser chance that single quotes will work if they are on the inside, I doubt MS ever treats them as special. Good luck. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- 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
