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

[John B. <joh...@ho...>]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 09:25:34 +0300 , Yuri Kanivetsky wrote:
>  
>> 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. 
>>  
>> It should work out even if it contains spaces, as long as I quote them. 
>>  
>> When you are done, delete the batch file. 
>  
> It's not a script to be run once. It's to be executed from time to time. 
>  

Let your script generate the .cmd file when it runs:

echo "myprog \"arg 1\" arg2"> test.cmd
cmd /c test.cmd # will execute myprog "arg 1" arg2
rm test.cmd

Regards,
John Brown.