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

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

>
>       1.  If all of the following conditions are met, then quote characters
>           on the command line are preserved:
>
>           - no /S switch
>           - exactly two quote characters
>           - no special characters between the two quote characters,
>             where special is one of: &<>()@^|
>           - there are one or more whitespace characters between the
>             the two quote characters
>           - the string between the two quote characters is the name
>             of an executable file.
>
> Item 1 is lawyer-speak, but if you read it carefully several time...
>
Indeed a lawyer-speak. Finally I've managed to understand what it says :)


> So the interesting part is item 2, which describes "old behavior" (a
> hint to why cmd.exe does what it does)...
>
I thought it's item 1 that is an old behavior.

This means, plain and simple, that MSYS is inappropriate for invoking
> cmd.exe.  Which is not a catastrophe, at least not for people who,
> like me, limit MSYS usage to configuring and building Posix software,
> where cmd.exe does not need to be invoked.  But other MinGW users, who
> do like using MSYS in routine operation of their Windows boxes, might
> not be pleased by this conclusion.
>
Well, the script I need this thing for was originally written for linux,
but now that I have a colleague working under windows, there arose the
necessity of having it run under windows. As the script basically runs
other programs and copies files I thought the bash was still a good fit for
it. Not that I changed my mind yet.