On 10/28/06, Gary Johnson wrote:
On 2006-10-28, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > From: Gary Johnson; Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 11:44 PM > > I am trying to pass Windows path names from a Windows batch file > > to a Cygwin bash script. I have found a solution using Windows > > environment variable substitution to replace \s with /s before > > passing the name to bash, but I cannot figure out how to pass > > the name without that replacement. The problem is with names of > > the form > > > > "\\host\user\file with spaces"
Note the difference between these two: Exhibit A: C:\>set CYGWIN=noglob C:\>\cygwin\bin\echo "\\host\share\file with spaces" \\host\share\file with spaces Exhibit B: C:\>set CYGWIN=glob C:\>\cygwin\bin\echo "\\host\share\file with spaces" \host\share\file with spaces HTH, Lev -- 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/
