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On 09/09/2009 11:27 AM, Ziser, Jesse wrote:

<snip>

> Huh?  Last time I checked, bash translates "\"abc\"" to "abc".

Yeah, I don't know what test I did last night that made me think this was 
right for
bash.  The lesson here is that I shouldn't try a bunch of tests quickly late 
at night. ;-)

<snip>

> Does "handles quoting" mean that it implements the "Quoting" section, and
> only that section, of the bash manpage?  I just need to know exactly what
> it does.  It clearly does not *only* do quoting.  That's why I
> demonstrated the asterisk example.  It is doing at least wildcard
> expansion in addition to quoting.  What else is it doing?  I'm trying to
> figure this out so I know how to properly escape or quote a general
> command in order to execute it from a Windows application without any
> unexpected changes.

Yeah, actually I'm not sure I understand what's behind this unpredictable 
behavior
either.  I'd tend to agree with Chris' thought here.  It would take more 
investigation
to track down what's really going on here.

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