Hi Corinna,
C:\cygwin\bin>\cygwin\home\quetschke\slashtest_cyg.exe '\\\' Arg1:\': _Hmm, one \ escaped and one ' escaped, quotes vanish if not escaped._
C:\cygwin\bin>\cygwin\home\quetschke\slashtest_cyg.exe \\\ Arg1:\\\: _Nothing special for a non-quoted string._
What is the deeper plan for this functionality?
Quotes are not treated specially in cmd. But they are used in Cygwin to allow applications called from cmd to get values which are otherwise difficult to transport. The rules are fairly simple and match your obvservations. A backslash is always a special character. So a real backslash has to be written as \\, the quoting character itself as either \' or \", whatever you used for it. That's it, basically. So your example '\\\' is treated as an unfinished quote with two characters, a backslash and a single quote.
Thanks, yes my small sed problem showed me that I also had to escape the used \s in that file even though the single \ was conserved it somehow confused sed.
Consequently using \\ fixes this.
Volker
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