Bash fails to run .bat file with spaces in pathname and argument

[Johnathon Jamison]

Respectfully, I think I know how shell quoting works.  If you look at 
the sample run, all spaces are properly escaped with either backslashes 
or double quotes.  The problem only surfaces when BOTH the program AND 
the argument have spaces, AND the program is a .bat file.  If you run 
what I have with only one item containing a space, or use a .sh script, 
things work.  Further, if you look at one of my examples, there is no 
space in the program being executed; the space is only present in the 
current working directory, and so clearly the proper quoting of the 
program is not at issue here.

I have finally found someone else who has come across the same issue:
http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg00081.html
Apparently this is a bug in cygwin:
http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg00145.html
Is anybody working on this?

Johnathon

Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to Johnathon Jamison on 10/11/2006 3:11 PM:
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>>Hello,
>>
>>I am having some funny behavior.  If I have a .bat file that is in a
>>directory whose pathname contains a space, and an argument is given to
>>the .bat file that has a space in it, then the .bat file fails to run.
>>Instead, I get "'xxx' is not recognized as an internal or external
>>command, operable program or batch file." where xxx is the portion of
>>the complete path to the .bat file before the first space.
> 
> 
> Sounds like you need to read up on shell quoting.
> 
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