On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Luke Kendall wrote:
On  4 Aug, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
        explorer /e,$XPATH & disown %-

Don't try this variant, though, since it doesn't work:

   explorer /e,"$XPATH" & disown %-

What happens if you try that innocuous-looking variant is that
Cygwin (or bash?) normalises the path /e,... to a windows path
first, producing \e,...

I'm an utter fanatic about quoting to make sure that what I have in
variables isn't munged.  So I'm dismayed to learn that quoting can
*cause* munging and that something munges values in new and exciting
ways.

Is there any documentation on who rewrites arguments, under what
conditions, and how they're altered?

--
Tim McDaniel, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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