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

[Eli Z. <el...@gn...>]

> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 02:15:01 +0300
> From: Yuri Kanivetsky <yur...@gm...>
> 
> 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.

Another, perhaps easier workaround is to write your command, as you'd
type it at the cmd.exe prompt, to a batch file, and then invoke
cmd.exe to run that batch file.  If you keep the batch file's name
without whitespace, the command that invokes it can side-step the
quoting issue altogether.  When you are done, delete the batch file.