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Executing a script that needs DOS path
- From: Ivan Dobrianov <ivan at dobrianov dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 14:37:25 -0400
- Subject: Executing a script that needs DOS path
Sorry if this has been answered a hundred times, but could not find
anything the FAQ, doc, or archives.
THE PROBLEM:
o Say I have some intrepreter xxx.exe, that expects to get started like
this
xxx c:\home\my_script.xxx <arg_1> <arg_2> ...
o I want to automate this process the usual way, by adding this to the
begining of the script:
#!/c/bin/xxx
...
hoping to be able to say:
my_script.xxx <arg_1> <arg_2>
o *** This fails, because cygwin [or bash] passes the unix path
/c/home/my_script.xxx to xxx.exe which it cannot interpret.
Is there a solution to this OTHER THAN using a proxy shell that would do
the unix-to-dos translation? The reason I don't like this solution is
that the shell will glob and eat quotes, making it very hard to process
filenames with spaces.
Thanks for any hints!
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