Thank you Brian, I will try both of those. Fortunately none of the aruments I may need to use for the real application will contain spaces, but it is good advice that I will remember nonetheless.
Peter --- Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Farley wrote: > > > I tried to use cygstart to execute bash with the > > "-c" option to execute a command and then > > terminate. Here's what I get: > > > > $ cygstart bash -c echo Hi There > > cygstart: bad argument -c: unknown option > > The problem that you are running into is that you > need to tell cygstart that the -c and following > arguments are meant for the child process, and > are not arguments to cygstart itself. '--' is a > standard way of doing this, which indicates to the > program that all of the following arguments > should not be interpreted as switches but just > regular data. So "cygstart -- bash -c ..." ought > to work. > > You will have to be careful with the quoting of the > stuff after -c though. Cygstart is designed to use > Windows-native methods to start a process. If > you're using it to start a Cygwin process, and you > want to have an argument with spaces in it (as is > the case with any nontrivial -c) then you will have > to be very careful with how you use quotes to > ensure that the Cygwin->Windows->Cygwin conversion > of the argv[] works correctly. It would be much > simpler to do something like: rxvt -e bash -c "echo > whatever". > > Brian __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- 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/