Christopher Cobb wrote: > Conclusion: cmd.exe command line processing is brain dead. > > Among the problems are that cmd.exe looks for /exactly/ one pair of quotes and > no more (see my previous message). And that (double) quotes are the /only/ way > of quoting spaces.
Wow. Hideous. I wonder if there would be any demand for a small compiled wrapper program that understands cygwin mounts and posix paths, but is a win32 app and calls the win32 or nt api directly to avoid all the quoting ridiculousless. It would Just Do What I Mean(tm) when called from either cygwin or cmd, and be able to launch bat files, cmd files, any other script-file associations known to Windows, with shebang support as well. Am I missing something? Is this really the next level? Should this be that hard? It seems like doing it with crafty application of bourne shell scripting is so painful, and still relies on cmd.exe. Maybe it could be a feature of the 'run' command, so that it also has the ability to launch programs without a console / in a new session / whatever it's called. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
