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Re: Strange cygpath behavior.
Den 2011-06-27 15:38 skrev Andrey Repin:
> Greetings, Peter Rosin!
>
>> As you are apparently using the cmd "shell", the correct way to quote
>> arguments in order to preserve spaces etc, is to use double quotes
>> and escape all backslashes with an extra backslash.
>
> Ok, please explain, how could I escape backslashes in, say, Explorer?
> It could only quote the string.
Search me.
> I can't even write my own conversion utility :/
> No amount of external conversion would help using diff or patch freely.
It's not the fault of diff or patch that *you* prefer broken crap that
*you* can't coerce into feeding the desired arguments. I'm sure it's
possible though.
Cheers,
Peter
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