RE: Re: Want to let variable pass to cygstart.

["Phil Betts" <Phil dot Betts at ascribe dot com>]

Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:37:46 +0000, Dave Korn
> <dave.korn.cygwin@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:

Please don't quote raw email addresses.  It only feeds the spammers.

> >  It's bash shell metacharacters.  The '&' character terminates a
> command and
> >puts it into the background.  The simplest way is to use single
quotes
> ' '
> >around the URL you want to cygstart.
> 
> Thanks a lot.

Except that single quotes will also prevent variable substitution.  If 
you want to use metacharacters AND variables, you have to use the 
backslash to escape the metacharacters.

Alternatively, you could concatenate strings like this:
  'stringA&stringB'$variable'stringC&stringD'


Phil
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