Christopher Cobb wrote:
Conclusion: cmd.exe command line processing is brain dead.
Among the problems are that cmd.exe looks for /exactly/ one pair of quotes and
no more (see my previous message). And that (double) quotes are the /only/ way
of quoting spaces.
Wow. Hideous.
I wonder if
Brian Dessent brian at dessent.net writes:
Interesting function. However, I found that it chokes if the name of
the command to run has spaces, even if they are properly quoted on the
command line, e.g.
That's interesting. I'm running Win XP and even with your patches I /still/ get
an
Christopher Cobb ccobb at email.com writes:
Brian Dessent brian at dessent.net writes:
Interesting function. However, I found that it chokes if the name of
the command to run has spaces, even if they are properly quoted on the
command line, e.g.
That's interesting. I'm running
Christopher Cobb wrote:
I use the following shell function cmd() to invoke batch files. It removes
cygwinisms from the PATH and the environment first and does some argument
pre-processing. It also seems to fix the space problem.
Interesting function. However, I found that it chokes if the
I get different results than you do. It seems to work as expected:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /c/Documents and Settings 09:45:46
511$ cat test.bat
echo %1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /c/Documents and Settings 09:45:48
511$ ./test.bat
C:\Documents and Settingsecho
ECHO is on.
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On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Christopher Cobb wrote:
I get different results than you do. It seems to work as expected:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /c/Documents and Settings 09:45:46
511$ cat test.bat
echo %1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /c/Documents and Settings 09:45:48
511$ ./test.bat
C:\Documents and
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Christopher Cobb wrote:
I get different results than you do. It seems to work as expected:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /c/Documents and Settings 09:45:46
511$ cat test.bat
echo %1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /c/Documents and Settings 09:45:48
511$ ./test.bat
C:\Documents
Igor Pechtchanski pechtcha at cs.nyu.edu writes:
I believe you're missing the point. Try
./test.bat hello world
and you'll get the error.
I use the following shell function cmd() to invoke batch files. It removes
cygwinisms from the PATH and the environment first and does some argument
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Mark Bohlman wrote:
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Christopher Cobb wrote:
I get different results than you do. It seems to work as expected:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /c/Documents and Settings 09:45:46
511$ cat test.bat
echo %1
[EMAIL
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Mark Bohlman wrote:
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Christopher Cobb wrote:
I get different results than you do. It seems to work as expected:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /c/Documents and Settings 09:45:46
511$ cat test.bat
echo %1
[EMAIL
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Mark Bohlman wrote:
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Mark Bohlman wrote:
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Christopher Cobb wrote:
I get different results than you do. It seems to work as expected:
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Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Mark Bohlman wrote:
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Mark Bohlman wrote:
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Christopher Cobb wrote:
I get different results than you do. It seems to work as expected:
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Thank you for your most eloquent and considerably rude response.
Though maybe that's my fault for not mentioning in my initial email that
writing a shell script (which is something that I can do) is not an option.
Unfortunately there are reasons why we need these .bat scripts (yes I don't
like
The problem is, there's nothing for me to quote here. It's not like
the batch script fails to
give me the correct information (due to incorrect quoting). The
script fails to even
LAUNCH when it lives in a directory with spaces and you pass in an argument with
a space in it. Mind you, I've
At 02:23 PM 9/2/2004, you wrote:
snip
Now let's take this one step further. In the last case, it actually
thinks it wants
to execute C:\Space instead of the script. Now let's do the following:
Create a batch script called C:\Space.bat and put one line into it.
cat /etc/passwd.
Now re-run
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