Phil wrote: " Will shell scripts get " " -Dsomething=c:/Documents and Settings/whatever " " as one argument, or three?
As I hinted in my (off-topic, sorry) other post, you can figure this out for yourself with trivial scripts in the language of interest. But also, you can note the recurring theme, which is that every tool discussed so far uses spaces to delimit tokens, and requires quotes to make things with spaces in them be considered a single token. Given that command line splitting (into argv, in a C program) is handled by code common to all programs (more or less), it should be clear which way to place your bets (if you don't want to actually do the trivial tests). Use Unix shell scripts to avoid the =-sign-is-treated-like-space problem in your Cygwin environment. Quote arguments with spaces to get them recognized as single arguments. Avoid directories with spaces in their names if you don't want to do the quoting work. " cgf wrote: " " " " This is all an argument for using Cygwin the way it was supposed to be " " used - there are no .bat files on UNIX. Use shell scripts instead. stephan(); -- 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/
