Bizarre Cygwin/Explorer/paths problem half-solved

[Tim McDaniel]

On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Luke Kendall wrote:
> On  4 Aug, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>>  	explorer /e,$XPATH & disown %-
>
> Don't try this variant, though, since it doesn't work:
>
>    explorer /e,"$XPATH" & disown %-
>
> What happens if you try that innocuous-looking variant is that
> Cygwin (or bash?) normalises the path /e,... to a windows path
> first, producing \e,...

I'm an utter fanatic about quoting to make sure that what I have in
variables isn't munged.  So I'm dismayed to learn that quoting can
*cause* munging and that something munges values in new and exciting
ways.

Is there any documentation on who rewrites arguments, under what
conditions, and how they're altered?

-- 
Tim McDaniel, tmcd@panix.com

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