-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Dave Korn on 1/11/2008 9:38 AM: | I believe what is needed is 1) outer double-quotes, for cmd's benefit, 2) | inner single-quotes, for bash's benefit, 3) double up the slashes /as well/, | because there's one more level of quoting being stripped than I can account | for, but anyway it works for me: | | C:\Documents and Settings\dk>C:\cygwin\bin\bash -v -x -c "'\\\\UNC_PATH\\Dir'" | '\\UNC_PATH\Dir' | + '\\UNC_PATH\Dir' | /usr/bin/bash: \\UNC_PATH\Dir: command not found
"'\\'" - the " quotes are stripped and \\ collapsed by cmd.exe => '\' '\' - the ' quotes are stripped by bash on execution => \ | If I wasn't trying to execute a directory but list it instead, I'd say | | C:\cygwin\bin\bash -v -x -c "ls -la '\\\\UNC_PATH\\Dir'" Which means: bash -vxc "ls -la \\\\\\\\UNC_PATH\\\\Dir" will also work (8 leading \ converted to 4 by cmd, then 4 converted to 2 by bash, so that ls sees an argument with 2 leading \). - -- 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 iD8DBQFHh+Ce84KuGfSFAYARAkhJAKCnk3p+yhal3k/09fAKywhficzz0ACgi+TA hVScKscjLyeHoc2Vx6LYiWM= =eSTr -----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/
