Greetings, Christian Franke via Cygwin! > Andrey Repin via Cygwin wrote: >> I'm using a wrapper script to comfortably start VS Code from file manager. >> >> The last line of it is >> >> cygstart --hide -- "/proc/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft VS >> Code/bin/code.cmd" "$(cygpath -alw "$_arg")" >> >> It works well up to the point where there are no spaces in the $_arg. But on >> the first seen space it break the arguments list into pieces. >> I have to double-quote the argument to maintain the consistency, like >> >> cygstart --hide -- "/proc/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft VS >> Code/bin/code.cmd" "\"$(cygpath -alw "$_arg")\"" >> >> but that's a questionable solution at best.
> This is as expected. Unlike Cygwin's exec() emulation, cygstart does not > add any quoting during conversion of the argv[] array to the plain argument > string required for Windows process creation API. Which is rather surprising, considering I've had these scripts for years. Guess I was just TOO lucky to not stumble upon the issue sooner. > Example: > $ cat test.cmd > @echo off > echo %%1 = '%1'>test.txt > echo %%2 = '%2'>>test.txt > echo %%3 = '%3'>>test.txt > echo %%4 = '%4'>>test.txt > echo %%5 = '%5'>>test.txt > $ ./test.cmd ArgOne 'Arg Two' 'Arg Three'; cat test.txt > %1 = 'ArgOne' > %2 = '"Arg Two"' > %3 = '"Arg Three"' > %4 = '' > %5 = '' > $ cygstart ./test.cmd ArgOne 'Arg Two' 'Arg Three';\ > sleep 1; cat test.txt > %1 = 'ArgOne' > %2 = 'arg' > %3 = 'Two' > %4 = 'Arg' > %5 = 'Three' > $ cygstart ./test.cmd ArgOne '"Arg Two"' '"Arg Three"' ;\ > sleep 1; cat test.txt > %1 = 'ArgOne' > %2 = '"Arg Two"' > %3 = '"Arg Three"' > %4 = '' > %5 = '' > $ cygstart ./test.cmd 'ArgOne "Arg Two" "Arg Three"' ;\ > sleep 1; cat test.txt > %1 = 'ArgOne' > %2 = '"Arg Two"' > %3 = '"Arg Three"' > %4 = '' > %5 = '' -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Monday, December 15, 2025 14:05:03 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
