On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 03:04:52PM +0100, Jan Schormann wrote: >> C:\>E:\cygwin\bin\echo.exe '/^ .*$/d' >> / .*$/d > >>I'm not really sure but I think cmd doesn't treat single quotes as >>quoting characters - at least not in the way bash does. > >That's true. In addition, the '^' in cmd is an escape character, like >the backslash in sh. Search for "string literals" in the XP help and >support center.
cmd may not treat single quotes as quoting characters but cygwin does when a command is started from the windows command prompt. As has been noted, the ^ is being eaten by cmd before cygwin ever sees it. 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/
