On 09/02/2014 01:50 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote: > > > On 02/09/2014 19:37, Achim Gratz wrote: >> Gerry Reno writes: >>> I have a script that issues this command: >>> >>> run $WINDIR/system32/mstsc.exe /multimon /v:$IP:3389 >>> >>> >>> And before this script has always succeeded but now it errors as follows: >>> >>> Invalid connection file (/v:192.168.1.27:3389) specified >>> >>> In a terminal window I can run the command directly and it succeeds: >>> >>> $WINDIR/system32/mstsc.exe /multimon /v:$IP:3389 >>> >>> But 'run' no longer successfully runs the command. >>> >>> Can someone verify this? >> >> Well I can verify that this happens, but I have no idea why. It seems >> that mstsc doesn't parse the option as option when started via run… >> >> >> Regards, >> Achim. >> > > I noticed that > > run "$WINDIR/system32/mstsc.exe /multimon /v:my_ip:3389" > > produces equivalent output of > > mstsc.exe /multimon /v:my_ip:3389 > > so eventually run is splitting the arguments in a way that mstsc > does not like > > Marco > >
It looks like it's always taking the last argument as a file. No matter what you put at the end of the line 'run' causes mstsc to think it's a file that needs opened. Gerry -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple