Re: [Mingw-users] running programs from MSYS with quotes

[Yuri K. <yur...@gm...>]

>
> If you want to invoke arcane applications, with anomalous command line
> parsing conventions, then you may need a wrapper program, to parse the
> literal command line, interpreting the escapes according to the C/C++
> runtime conventions, whence reconstructing the anomalously intended
> argument string, which it then forwards to CreateProcess().
>
> Sometimes, you need to think outside the box.  It could be that such a
> forwarding wrapper would be a useful addition to MSYS itself; perhaps
> Cesar, (the MSYS maintainer), could comment?
>
I suppose wrapper program would be overkill. At least for me. So I've come
with a way to overcome this:

$ echo 'cmd /c ""cmd" /k echo test"' | cmd
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.2.9200]
(c) 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Yuri>cmd /c ""cmd" /k echo test"
test

C:\Users\Yuri>
C:\Users\Yuri>

Though, it spits some extra noise along the way.

Also, since msys shell doesn't support process substitution, I was thinking
about using mktemp, which produces strange output, as it appears. It made
me stuck with this solution for now. And as I know see, msys has its own
mktemp, which is not installed by default. Gotta give it a try.