-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Jay on 1/8/2008 6:52 PM: | When i run |> bash -i -c "cygpath -a '\\uncpath\mydrive$'"
Whoa - it seldom makes sense to use -i and -c simultaneously - what good is an interactive shell, if all it is going to do is execute a single command sequence that works just fine non-interactively? Drop the -i. For that matter, why do you need to invoke another instance of bash to call cygpath, when you've already stated that cygpath works just fine on its own? | Why do i get different results depending on how it is called? Because you are calling it differently. Try: echo bash -i -c "cygpath -a '\\uncpath\mydrive$'" to see what you were calling, and note that it wasn't a UNC path. In bash, "" and '' don't nest. Therefore, the rules for "" apply, since that is your outer quoting, and \\ simplifies to \, \m happens to pass unchanged, and $' happens to pass unchanged (but other sequences would have led to other surprises). This is one way to do what you seem to want: bash -c "cygpath -a '"'\\uncpath\mydrive$'\' By the way, none of this tutorial on shell quoting is cygwin specific. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHhFWT84KuGfSFAYARApImAJsENqjN54AbhvIP1uX6CgYHO5gZgwCgtOV4 lKmUlY5zgUsZGjWBt/aOPbw= =F3eB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/
