Re: syntax for Cygwin bash invoking Win apps

2009-09-22 Thread Ziser, Jesse
More strange behavior when running Cygwin apps from a Windows prompt. The quoting seems not to follow any rules that I can manage to track down: The following are normal and expected, given that we discovered that all Cygwin apps do some kind of as-yet-undefined partial bash preprocessing on th

Re: syntax for Cygwin bash invoking Win apps

2009-09-09 Thread Ziser, Jesse
--- On Wed, 9/9/09, Christopher Faylor wrote: > From: Christopher Faylor > Subject: Re: syntax for Cygwin bash invoking Win apps > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 12:45 PM > On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 12:10:44PM > -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote: > >On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:

Re: syntax for Cygwin bash invoking Win apps

2009-09-09 Thread Ziser, Jesse
--- On Wed, 9/9/09, Mark J. Reed wrote: > From: Mark J. Reed > Subject: Re: syntax for Cygwin bash invoking Win apps > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 11:10 AM > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:05 PM, > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > $ cmd /c echo "\"abc\"" > > "\"ab

Re: syntax for Cygwin bash invoking Win apps

2009-09-09 Thread Ziser, Jesse
>On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Ziser, Jesse wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> When I type a command in bash to invoke a Windows application (like cmd.exe, >> for example), I can't seem to find a pattern in the Windows command line that >> actually gets executed.

Re: syntax for Cygwin bash invoking Win apps

2009-09-09 Thread Ziser, Jesse
>On 09/08/2009 11:30 PM, Ziser, Jesse wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> When I type a command in bash to invoke a Windows application (like >> cmd.exe, for example), I can't seem to find a pattern in the Windows command >> line that actually gets executed. Ordinary

syntax for Cygwin bash invoking Win apps

2009-09-08 Thread Ziser, Jesse
Hello list, When I type a command in bash to invoke a Windows application (like cmd.exe, for example), I can't seem to find a pattern in the Windows command line that actually gets executed.  Ordinary bash syntax does not seem to apply in general when the command is a Windows app, but rather, s