On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 10:16:57AM -0500, Tim McDaniel wrote: > 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?
I missed this when it was first mentioned. Cygwin doesn't munge command line arguments. Why would it assume that /e,something was a windows path? That makes no sense. cgf -- 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/
