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RE: window command in bash
- From: "Buchbinder, Barry \(NIH/NIAID\) [E]" <BBuchbinder at niaid dot nih dot gov>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:11:50 -0400
- Subject: RE: window command in bash
Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
>
>> McGraw, Robert P. wrote:
>>> I have a window command that I want to execute in a bash script.
>>>
>>> In my .bat file the command is
>>>
>>> AgBackup.exe /notext c:\Alligate\agbackupfiles
>>>
>>> I tried to execute this command in a bash window and the command
>>> works but is does not seem to recognize the parameters. The
>>> "c:\alligate...." is the path where a backup is written. In the bash
>>> script the backup file is written in the default location. [snip]
>>> In a shell script what is the proper way to pass parameters to a
>>> window program?
>>
>> A Windows program will think that /cygdrive/c/Alligate/agbackupfiles
>> are options, not a path.
>>
>> Did you quote the path or escape the backslashes to protect the
>> backslashes from the shell interpreting them as escape characters?
>> E.g., AgBackup.exe /notext 'c:\Alligate\agbackupfiles'
>> or
>> AgBackup.exe /notext "c:\Alligate\agbackupfiles"
>
> A minor correction: you still need to escape the backslashes when
> using double quotes, so the right way is
>
> AgBackup.exe /notext "c:\\Alligate\\agbackupfiles"
>
Here's what bash does:
/c> echo "c:\Alligate\agbackupfiles"
c:\Alligate\agbackupfiles
Maybe if one has a variable following the backslash:
/c> echo "xyz\$USER"
xyz$USER
/c> echo "xyz\\$USER"
xyz\BBuchbinder
>> or
>> AgBackup.exe /notext c:\\Alligate\\agbackupfiles
>>
>> You should read
>> <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-effectively.html>
>> in the Cygwin User's Guide <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/>, and
>> especially
>> <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-effectively.html#id4735437>.
>
> HTH,
> Igor
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