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On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:56:54AM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Ziser, Jesse wrote:
>>>> $ cmd /c echo "\"abc\""
>>>> "\"abc\""
>>>>
>>>> # Wahhh?!
>>>>
>>>> Anyone who knows the explanation would make me very grateful. I've tried
>>>> this with other Windows apps too, and the same weirdness seems to occur.
>
>Larry Hall:
>>>All of the above is consistent with bash shell quoting.
>
>No, it's really not.  Those backslashes should be long gone by the
>time cmd.exe gets its arguments, yet it echoes them.  It seems that
>the Cygwin version of bash stops short before doing some of the work
>it normally does itself on other systems, assuming the executed
>command will have its command line run through the preprocessor in the
>Cygwin DLL.

Actually, I'd say that was cmd doing something funky.  It's hard to believe
that bash was actually special-casing cmd.exe.

cgf

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