Re: [Mingw-users] MSYS-built shell script and cmd.exe shell

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

Quoting Keith MARSHALL <kei...@to...>:

> Earnie Boyd wrote, quoting Sysiphus:
>>> Is there some utility that will enable the running of an
>>> MSYS-built shell script (!# bin/sh) in the cmd.exe shell ?
>>
>> From cmd.exe just do ``c:/msys/1.0/bin/sh foo.sh''.
>
>> From cmd.exe, that would need to be `c:\msys\1.0\bin\sh foo.sh'.
> While Windows itself has no problem recognising path names with
> forward slashes, cmd.exe is just too dumb -- it parses forward
> slash as a delimiter, expecting it to be followed by an option;
> Earnie's example would try to invoke `c:' as a command, with
> options `/msys', `/1.0', etc., which of course would fail.
>

Are you really sure about this?

<sample>
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

H:\>c:

C:\>/opt/mingw/bin/sh
sh-3.1$
</sample>

Earnie Boyd

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