On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 17:26:50 -0700, wrote: >zzapper wrote:
> >Sometimes it can be hard, especially when you are dealing with both >Cygwin and non-Cygwin programs, because the quoting rules differ. But >it is always possible, and I can't believe that there exists a situation >where you are actually forced to use the short filename. If you have >one, post it. > >Brian See script below sja.exe is actually in program files, my kludge below was to use a mount (rather than the short name) (sja.exe is SQLYOG Job Agent) dirbackup="c:/backup/dosh/" eval filedate=$(date.exe '+%d%b%y') ls -l c:/backup/dosh/doshautoexport.sql sjaprog="/sqlyog/sja.exe" sjascript="c:/cygwin/usr/local/bin/sql/dosh-batch.xml" sjarun="$sjaprog $sjascript"; $sjarun -- zzapper Success for Techies and Vim,Zsh tips http://SuccessTheory.com/ -- 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/
