Problem passing Windows path names from batch file to bash script

[Lev Bishop]

On 10/28/06, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2006-10-28, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> > From: Gary Johnson; Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 11:44 PM
> > > I am trying to pass Windows path names from a Windows batch file
> > > to a Cygwin bash script.  I have found a solution using Windows
> > > environment variable substitution to replace \s with /s before
> > > passing the name to bash, but I cannot figure out how to pass
> > > the name without that replacement.  The problem is with names of
> > > the form
> > >
> > >     "\\host\user\file with spaces"

Note the difference between these two:

Exhibit A:
C:\>set CYGWIN=noglob
C:\>\cygwin\bin\echo "\\host\share\file with spaces"
\\host\share\file with spaces

Exhibit B:
C:\>set CYGWIN=glob
C:\>\cygwin\bin\echo "\\host\share\file with spaces"
\host\share\file with spaces

HTH,
Lev

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