-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 André,
On 3/18/13 12:03 PM, André Warnier wrote: > Harris, Jeffrey E. wrote: >> >> start "" "D:\Tomcat 7.0\bin\tomcat7w.exe" //MS//Tomcat7 >> >> See >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/154075/using-the-dos-start-command-with-parameters-passed-to-the-started-program > >> > Judging by that thread though, there appears to be as many > different suggestions as people.. ;-) Windows's CMD shell has so > many quirks in general, that it is really hard to figure out how it > will handle a command-line. Windows CMD.EXE basically does not handle the command-line: each program handles it by itself, which is why quotes don't always work, etc. I remember long ago trying to find out how to process wildcards on the command-line from a C program, and the Borland C compiler actually came with a library that you would just link-in and it would handle the wildcard expansion in command-line parameters. It's colossally stupid to have all client programs handle their own command-line expansion, but that's what CMD.EXE and its predecessor COMMAND.COM required. I believe it's a relic of having to operate in a very small amount of RAM: not every program needs complicated wildcard expansion, command-line parsing, etc. so the shell was made to be as slim as possible. > It`s almost worth installing a Windows bash port just to avoid it. > Not that I've ever tried it though. It wouldn't help in this case, because you'd probably still want to use the "start" program to launch your stuff. Using cygwin and &'ing a process just means that you have to leave the shell sitting around to avoid killing it. I'm not sure how a program like "nohup" actually works on Windows, so I'm not convinced there's a good way to solve David's problem -- using the "" trick is as good as any hack. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEAREIAAYFAlFId44ACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PDPFwCeOms0gD2zfzfes+c2KTEtjWpM rZIAoLjWPCm+M/ByS6saCdcQUfao06qe =tZzP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
